The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #17850   Message #174126
Posted By: Metchosin
05-Feb-00 - 08:24 PM
Thread Name: Help: Usher's Well: What is a 'winding sheet'
Subject: RE: Help: Usher's Well: What is a 'winding sheet'
Grey Wolf, Winding sheet is also referred to in the song Bennachie, also in the DT, but it doesn't appear to have come up in the above list, so you may not get all the references even if they are in there.

Benannachie is in the DT as a song by Old Blind Dogs, but the actual lyrics on their Album, New Tricks is closer to the lyrics posted by Murray on Saltspring in Bennachie(2). They also have an additional verse too, something like:

Gin me awa where the Gadie runs
Wi the bonnie broome and the yellow hunds
Gin me awa where the Gadie runs
At the back of Bennachie.

If anyone with a knowledge of dialect, familiar with their song could help me with the correct words, I would be most appreciative.

But perhaps I should just start a new thread.