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The Bothy Lads
Sample lyrics, not entirely clear for Americans, but you can get the gist:
For they’re awfy lads the bothy lads
Gin they get what they’re seekin
They’ll pack a kist an they’ll gang an enlist
An’ leave the lassies greetin
When a wis noo but sweet sixteen
Wi’ beauty just in bloomin
Little little did I ken
At nineteen I’d be greetin
For the plooboy lads are gey braw lads
But they’re fause an deceiving
For they’ll tak a’ an they’ll gang awa
An leave the lassie’s greetin
3 comments:
I have been reading historical mysteries set in Scotland in the last of the 18th and first of the 19th centuries. I know the meaning of those lyrics thanks to Lexie Conyngham :) (The Murray of Letho series is for the most part superb!)
I have a deep fondness for Scots - not quite a dialect, not quite a different language, but wholly music to the ears.
@Verloren
Ditto!
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