Mudcat Café message #1662811

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Thread #88570 Message #1662811
Posted By: Malcolm Douglas
06-Feb-06 - 10:08 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Hishie Ba / When I Was Noo But Sweet 16
Subject: RE: Hishie ba- when i was noo but sweet 16

James Porter and Herschel Gower (Jeannie Robertson: Emergent Singer, Transformative Voice, Tuckwell Press/University of Tennessee Press 1995, pp 233-4) note that "Jean Redpath adds to Jeannie's text another stanza that she learned from Lucy Stewart via Arthur Argo:

It's keepit me frae loupin' dykes
Frae balls and frae waddins O
It's gi'en me balance tae my stays
And that's the latest fashion O."