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Thread #146186   Message #3384505
Posted By: Gutcher
01-Aug-12 - 05:51 AM
Thread Name: Folklore: What does 'lying next to the wall' mean?
Subject: RE: Folklore: What does 'lying next to the wall' mean?
In the song "Noo Haud Yer Tongue Dear Maggie" the last line of the 3rd verse is:--"Tae tak me in his strong airms and lay me neist the waa". The young wife, in this case being married to an old man, is in need of some action from a young man.

Bundling gets a mention in various songs including "The Braes O Kirkmahoe". The practice appears to have died out about the middle of the 18th.C. in S.W. Scotland.

V.7.
"Tae bundle there wi Annie
it was my sole intent
but o that loosum kimmer
man she wad provoke a saint".