Another dirge that really rocks, and is replete with the diddle-eye-oh chorus, is "The Battle of Harlaw", a Child ballad recently recorded by Old Blind Dogs. about a battle fought near Aberdeen about 1410.

"Gin anybody speir at ye for them ye sent awa' Ye can tell their wives and bairnies plain, They're sleepin at Harlaw With a diddle-eye-oh and a fall and a do and a diddle-eye-oh-eye-eh."

In DT.

BC