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Lyr Req/ADD: McGinty's Meal and Ale (Thompson/Kemp |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req/ADD: McGinty's Meal and Ale (Thompson/Kemp From: GUEST,Anne Neilson Date: 02 Feb 16 - 05:06 PM Just heard a superb performance of this wonderful song at Celtic Connections festival in Glasgow. The event was a celebration of the influential Wee Red Book -- otherwise known as '101 Scottish Songs' -- by the late Norman Buchan, and now re-issued by Harper Collins in collaboration with the TMSA (Traditional Music and Song Association of Scotland). And there will be a DVD of the concert available from TMSA in March/April! |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req/ADD: McGinty's Meal and Ale (Thompson/Kemp From: Gavin Paterson Date: 02 Feb 16 - 04:22 PM This song is a bit similar to Johnny McEldoo, No? |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: McGinty's Meal and Ale (Thompson, Kemp) From: Dave MacKenzie Date: 06 Oct 10 - 11:03 AM Hi Abby. Long time no see. I'd only really disagree with one item in your glossary, no 46: "Syne they harl't him wi' meal and ale" I've always understood this to mean 'applied a roughcast'. Croon I'd say was any meaning of crown. David R. |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: McGinty's Meal and Ale (Thompson, Kemp) From: Abby Sale Date: 06 Oct 10 - 10:39 AM I see I've never explained this. Sorry. On croaking this out the other day, I was asked for the reference so I'd better get my pigs in a row. Since few are likely to read this, I can pretty safely thank that group now for not stoning me for it, though I believe the group leader was considering tar and feathers about the 18th incoherent verse. It was writen by George Bruce Thompson and submited to Grieg's column in the Buchan Obsever about 1910. It was printed in Folk Songs of the North-East by Gavin Greig as "M'Ginty's Meal and Ale." I took the title and words from that 1963 Goldstein book of facsimiles of the newspaper series. In The Greig~Duncan Folk Song Collection, Vol. 3, p. 508 (song #630) and also in Norman Buchan, 101 Scottish Songs, 1962, it's given as "McGinty's Meal-an-Ale". The inestimable Emily Lyle, editor of the Greig~Duncan volume, wrote me that the copy in Thomson's own hand reads "McGinty." It is unknown whether Greig or Greig's publisher used the common abbreviation "M'Ginty." I also failed to include my glossary - deeply sorry about that. I do see that several words in the song are a tad obscure. === 0 Meal-an-Ale = party 1 mixter = mixture 2 beef-brose = beef soup 3 sowens = fermented oat-flour porridge 4 sautie = salty 5 bannocks = griddle oatcakes 6 pess = Easter 7 tinkies = tinkers (travelers/"gypsies") 8 howe = hollow 9 jinkies = high-jinks 10 butt = around 11 hoose = house 12 heelster-gowdy =topsy-turvey, head-over-heels 13 skyrl = screech (of the bagpipe) 14 teuchit = peewit or lapwing 15 ashet = serving/carving dish 16 dreepin' = cooking fat 17 peel't = scraped 18 croon = pate 19 haud = hold off 20 greetin' = weeping 21 skyelf = shelf 22 ricklin' = rattling 23 kirnin' = churning (thrashing) 24 piz-meal = pea meal 25 yirnin' = rennet 26 gollach = a beetle 27 tricle = treacle 28 girnin' = whining 29 soss = soggy mess 30 Syne = in a while 31 fan = when 32 tuggit = tugged 33 ruggit = were rough 34 tatties = spuds 35 backet = basin/bucket 36 spurtles = porridge stirrers 37 gar = make 38 claw = scratch 39 yokin' = working [I think] 40 fou = full (drunk) 41 dokin = dock leaf (a thing of no value) 42 eely pigs = oil jars 43 jeely pigs = jam jars 44 hidet = hid 45 roset = resin 46 harl't = threw at 47 troch = trough (ie, as if he'd been stuccoed) 48 barley bree = whiskey 49 widder = widow 50 keegerin' = messing about 51 dubs = mud puddles 52 gyang = go 53 na weel = not well 54 thegidder = together 55 doot = doubt 56 anidder = another |
Subject: RE: McGinty's meal an ale From: GUEST,kenny Date: 28 Jun 06 - 07:05 PM Ah - they don't write 'em like that anymore. |
Subject: RE: McGinty's meal an ale From: Goose Gander Date: 28 Jun 06 - 06:44 PM Try this thread for a related song. |
Subject: RE: McGinty's meal an ale From: Susanne (skw) Date: 28 Jun 06 - 06:24 PM Try M'Ginty's Meal and Ale. Or do as I did and put 'McGinty's' in the Lyrics and Knowledge Search to get any number of hits, including the one above! |
Subject: Lyr Add: MCGINTY'S MEAL AND ALE From: Les from Hull Date: 28 Jun 06 - 06:04 PM Got it by putting and instead of an'! MCGINTY'S MEAL AND ALE Words by George Bruce Thomson; Music by Willie Kemp 1. This is nae a sang o' love na', nor yet a sang o' money, Faith it's naethin' verra peetifu', it's naethin' verra funny; But there's hielan' Scotch, Lowland Scotch, Butter Scotch an' honey, If there's nane o' them for a' there's a mixture o' the three. An' there's nae a word o' beef, brose, sowens, sauty bannocks na' Nor pancakes, paes eggs for them wi' dainty stammicks; But it's a' aboot a meal and ale that happened at Balmannocks, McGinty's meal and ale, whaur the pig ga'ed on the spree. CHORUS: They were howlin# in the kitchen like a caravan o' Tinkies, aye, And some were playin' ping-pong, and tiddely widdely winkies; For up the howe and doon the howe ye niver saw such jinkies, As McGinty's meal and ale, whaur the pig ga'ed on the spree. 2. Noo McGinty's pig had broken lowse, an wannert tae the lobby, Whaur he opened shived the pantry door, an' cam' upon the toddy; And he took kindly tae the stuff like ony human boddy, At McGinty's meal and ale, whaur the pig ga'ed on the spree. Miss McGinty she ran, but the hoose th'wey was dark an' crookit, She ga'ed heelster gowdie ower the pig, for it she never lookit; And she lat oot a skirl was hae paralysed a teuchit, At McGinty's meal and ale, whaur the pig ga'ed on the spree. CHORUS 3. Johnnie Murphy he ran efter her, and ower the pig was leapin' Whan he trampit on an ashet that was sittin' fu' o' dreepin' An' he fell doon and peel't his croon, an' quidna' haud frae greetin' At McGinty's meal and ale, whaur the pig ga'ed on the spree. And the pantry shelf cam' ricklin' doon and he was lyin' kirnin' Amang saft soap, pease meal, corn flour and yirnin' Like a gollach amang trickle but McGinty's wife was girnin' At McGinty's meal and ale, whaur the pig ga'ed on the spree. CHORUS 4. Sybe they a' ran skirlin' tae the door but fan' that it was tuggit, For aye it held the feester, aye the mair they ruggit; Till McGinty roared tae bring an axe, he wadna' be humbuggit, Na' nor lockit in his ain hoose, and that he'd lat them see. Sae the wife cam' trailin' wi' an axe, an' through the bar was hacket, And open flew the door at aince, sae ticht as they were packet, And a' the crew cam rummlin' oot like tatties frae a backet, At McGinty's meal and ale, whaur the pig ga'ed on the spree. CHORUS 5. They had spurtles, they had tattie chappers, faith they werena' jokin' And they swore they'd gar the pig claw whaur he was never yokin' But by this time the lad was fou' and didna' care a dockin' At McGinty's meal and ale, whaur the pig ga'ed on the spree. Oh! there's eelie pigs an' jeelie pigs, an' pigs for haudin' butter, Aye but this pig was greetin' fou' and rowin' in the gutter, Till McGinty and his foreman trailed him oot upon a shutter, Frae McGinty's meal and ale, whaur the pig ga'ed on the spree. CHORUS 6. Miss McGinty took the thing tae heart, an' hidit in her closet, An' they rubbit Johnnie Murphy's head wi' turpentine an' rost; Syne they harl't him wi' meal and ale, ye really was supposit He has sleepit in a mason's trough and risen tae the spree. Oh! weary on the barley bree, an' weary fa' the weather, For it's keetcherin' 'mang dubs an' drink, they gangna' weel thegither; But there's little doot McGinty's pig is wishin' for anither O' McGinty's meal and ale, whaur the pig ga'ed on the spree. CHORUS |
Subject: McGinty's meal an ale From: purrplevoice Date: 28 Jun 06 - 05:41 PM searching all over the place and can't believe I can't find all the words to Mcginty's Meal an Ale! One of those songs where I know some of it but not all in order :-) Can anybody help? |
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