The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #25910 Message #2697338
Posted By: Ross Campbell
10-Aug-09 - 07:56 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Rap Her to Bank (from The Watersons)
Subject: RE: Rap her to bank - The Watersons
Re "tyum 'uns" - this has already been covered elsewhere. The old Scots or Middle English word "toom" means "empty" - still surviving in regional dialect. It's not a mondegreen, the words you have been given are correct.