The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #96122   Message #1982097
Posted By: GUEST,Hector Gilchrist
28-Feb-07 - 03:52 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Tramps and Hawkers
Subject: RE: tramps and hawkers
I heard this song from Jimmy McBeath when regularly at the Aberdeen Club.The tune has always been in my mind,as a version of the Donegal song Glen Swilly,which I got from an Irish worker at the Mauchline creamery in 1959 in my student days.Jimmy used to sing "broon's a toad" but it could have been Tod.or fox,anyway he had his own unique orally transmitted versions and probably made a few phrases up along the way!