The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #61309   Message #3971625
Posted By: GUEST
15-Jan-19 - 05:11 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Tom Bolynn (3)
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Tom Bolynn (3)
Post by Lighter at 5.55pm on 10/1/2018

In verse 4 on the above date the last line reads:--"But two Urchins skins, and them he put on."
The composer has not taken to flaying two small boys to make a saddle of their skins.
The Proggles of a Hurcheon {ie} the spines of a hedgehog, is a phrase still in common use in these parts.