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Thread #36026   Message #495181
Posted By: John Nolan
29-Jun-01 - 11:03 PM
Thread Name: Some Scottish Poems?
Subject: RE: Some Scottish Poems?
Robert Garioch's Sisyphus presents an interesting challenge. It has 17 lines and a classic Greek metre - and if ye get a tune for that, ye still have tae sing it in Lallans. Here's the first line, tae give ye the idea, hen:
Bumpity doun in the corrie gaed whuddran the pitiless whun stane.