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Posted By: masato sakurai
23-Mar-05 - 03:21 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Katey of Lochgoil
Subject: Lyr Add: KATEY OF LOCHGOIL
I've just got Ford's Vagabond Songs, 2 vols. (1899-1901). "Katey of Lochgoil" is on pages 51-53 of the second series, with no music.
KATEY OF LOCHGOIL Tune--"The Whalers."
'Twas on the year Eleventy-nine, And March the fortieth day, That Katey of Lochgoil, my boys, To sea she'll bore away.
To my fal al de dal, etc.
Now Katey, she's as fine a ship As ever yet was rig; And when she'll got her mainsail up, Got! you'll tuke her for a prig.
T'ere was Tonald More an' Tugald More, Shon Tamson an' Shon Roy; And all our whole ship's companie Was one laddie an' a poy.
As we'll sail by the Pladda light, She'll plew a terrible plow; Says Tonald More to Tugald More, She'll thinks she's pest pelow.
As we steer round the Ailsa Craig, She'll plew a wondrous gale; Says Tonald More to Tugald More, We'll turn apoot her tail.
As we steer round the Toward Point, She'll plew a terrible plast; She'll plew up such a hurricane, She'll plew away her mast.
As we came by the Cloch light-house, She'll plaw a terrible plew It's Tonald at the poo, my boys, O! she'll be tuke a spew.
The captain, being kind to us, Put on the muckle pot, Wi' scatyuns for to boil to us-- But de'l a one we'll got.
T'ere was Tonald More an' Tugald More, Shon Tamson an' his mate, Was putting his cousin's son ashore, For breakin' a scatyun plate.
Ta signal that our Katey had, Was Tobald's bonnet blue; Ta skipper being out on shore, It's he the signal knew.
Noo Katey, she is home again, And safe on Greenock quay; And ere she'll go to sea again, She'll tuke new hands for me.
(This was long, and even until recently, a popular song at small social parties throughout the West of Scotland. All readily engaging lustily in the chorus.)