The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #25910   Message #2696829
Posted By: Rumncoke
10-Aug-09 - 06:29 AM
Thread Name: Origins: Rap Her to Bank (from The Watersons)
Subject: RE: Rap her to bank - The Watersons
I have had it explained to me that 'chummins' and 'tyum 'uns' are dialect words - I think it is a mondegreen.

The putter rams the empty ones.

But wi' t' explosive 't' and an accent it is not heard clearly enough.

Anne Croucher