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14 Apr 19 - 07:49 PM (#3987402) Subject: Another Scottish mondegreen From: GUEST,Jon Bartlett Long ago, I acquired a Hamish Imlach LP, and a very fine album it was. It contained, among others, "Hairy Mary". The song describes a fella who after a few pints picks up a bird at the Palais and takes her home. Then comes this verse: Oot cam her mammy, she was goin to the cludgie Oh, a bucket of shardfish... I knew that a cludgie was an outside loo, but what was the need for the shardfish? How would they help in the excretory process? And what WERE shardfish, anyway? After consulting various Scots friends and looking it up in Scottish dictionaries, I was none the wiser. Finally, I saw the verse in print: Oot cam her mammy, she was goin to the cludgie Oh, I buggered off sharpish... Jon Bartlett |
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15 Apr 19 - 05:26 AM (#3987446) Subject: RE: Another Scottish mondegreen From: Jack Campin What Imlach did to that song was repulsive - self-indulgent macho drunken grunts. It's not surprising people get the words wrong listening to him. Sadly most people think that's the way you have to sing it. Did Carl MacDougall ever record it himself? |
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15 Apr 19 - 06:46 AM (#3987462) Subject: RE: Another Scottish mondegreen From: GUEST https://youtu.be/Zch5NQcmWKI |
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15 Apr 19 - 09:30 AM (#3987476) Subject: RE: Another Scottish mondegreen From: GUEST That's a bit po-faced, Jack Campin |
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15 Apr 19 - 09:42 AM (#3987478) Subject: RE: Another Scottish mondegreen From: GUEST,akenaton Mr Campin was the original "poe", Hamish was a magnificent entertainer. |
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15 Apr 19 - 11:36 AM (#3987495) Subject: RE: Another Scottish mondegreen From: John MacKenzie What Ake said, in triplicate ;) |
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15 Apr 19 - 12:03 PM (#3987506) Subject: RE: Another Scottish mondegreen From: Johnny J Here's an early version which sounds quite sedate.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMxyP3oEFlE and the "self-indulgent macho drunken grunts" version especially for Jack https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=040VB06-s1k |
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15 Apr 19 - 01:53 PM (#3987526) Subject: RE: Another Scottish mondegreen From: GUEST,akenaton Thanks John, my, things have ferr chinged I remember how everybody loved this self- depreciating Glesca song.....now Hamish would be hounded out of the toon. We have become so fucking precious we don't know how to look into ourselves any longer. Society is in deep trouble. |
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15 Apr 19 - 03:19 PM (#3987537) Subject: RE: Another Scottish mondegreen From: GUEST,Sol "Society is in deep trouble" Alas, I have to agree. Far too much cotton wool around these days. |