This is taken from the web site of Eilean, a Celtic band based in Germany:


SHETLAND SPINNING SONG

Chorus 2x (nonsense Gaelic syllables):
Hullamacka doo, hoorova hee
Hoorova hinda, hoorova hinda
hullamacka doo, hoorova hee
O dicko, decko, dandy.

When will someone come to me?
Will he come by land or sea?
Will he my own true love be?
Oh tell me truly wheel-o.

Chorus

Wheel of fate what ist you say?
This year next or ne'er a day.
When will a lover come my way?
Oh tell me truly wheel-o.

Chorus

Be he dark or be he fair
Shy or bold or debonair?
Ribbons brau will deck my hair
To meet and greet my true love.

Chorus

Summer days and heather bells
Are ringing through the silent hills
There's yellow corn in yonder fields
and autumn brings the shearing.

If the weather it be dry,
They'll say there's love 'tween you and I
They'll say there's love 'tween you and I
When we go to the shearing.

When the harvest it be done
We'll have some ranting, roaring fun.
We'll have some ranting, roaring fun.
When we go to the shearing.

Chorus 3x