The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #3102   Message #14815
Posted By: Tim Jaques tjaques@netcom.ca
15-Oct-97 - 07:19 PM
Thread Name: Women's Work Songs
Subject: RE:
I have waulking songs, but they are all in Gaelic. Any use to you? BTW, in Cape Breton, where the winters are worse than they are in Scotland, men joined in the waulking. I am informed that any of the lyrics to waulking songs are only what they happened to write down at that particular time. Quite often they'd make them up as they went along, poking fun at each other and having good natured insult contests.

I know a nice lullaby from Cape Breton, but will have to double-check some of the lyrics. Will post. I agree. I would rather do any number of hours of wood-chopping than try to get a baby to sleep.