LOL... I'm an American who did not learn the Wee Cooper o Fife from Burl Ives... I learned it from Alex Campbell's The Best Loved Songs of Bonny Scotland back in 1966. Mom got that album and A L Lloyd & Ewan MacColl's Row Bullys Row from good old Publishers Clearing House when I was in grade school. When we couldn't get additional copies, I confiscated them for myself when I went off to college. sorry, mom.


It did take my some time to figure out all the words through Alex's thick brogue. I'm still trying to figure out all of "Twa Heids are better than Yen", another fine bothy song.