Lyr Req: Oor Gudeman (Alastair McDonald)

Subject: Alastair McDonad's Oor Gudeman
From: GUEST,Jacob
Date: 15 Jan 08 - 09:21 AM

I have heart this, but I don't understand. It's not the same as the textb i've found.
It ends with something
"Och, ye may think me dense, said oor gudeman, but a'm secht enought tae see, the jacobites are in this hoose, wi ought tae leeve or be".

Any help?

Subject: RE: Alastiar McDonad's Oor Gudeman
From: Susanne (skw)
Date: 18 Jan 08 - 06:13 PM

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Subject: RE: Alastiar McDonad's Oor Gudeman
From: GUEST
Date: 18 Jan 08 - 10:56 PM

Jacob,
       There are many, many versions of this.

Sam Henry's Songs of the People Pages 508-9.

The Blin' Auld Man - The Covered Cavalier: "An auld        sang in braid Scots," 5 Apr 1924; Child #274



"The Blind Man He Can See." Other titles:        "As I Came Rolling Home from Sea," "The Blind (Drunken) Fool," "Cabbage Head (Song)," "Coming Home Late," "The Drunk Husband," "Drunkard Blues," "Drunkard's Special," "Four (Five) (Six) (Seven) Nights Drunk," "Four Nights' Experience," "Hame Drunk Cam' I," "The Hillman," "I Came (Went) Home (Drunk) Last (One) Night," "A Jacobite Song," "A Little before Me Time," "The Merry Cuckold," "My Old Man," "(Now It's) My        (The) Old Man (Came Home Again) (One Night),"        "The Old Farmer and His Young Wife," "Old Man Crip," "Old Wichet," "Th' Owd Chap (Come ower t' Bank) ," "Our (The) Goodman (Gudeman) (Cam Home at E'en)," "Shickered as He Could Be," "Three Nights' Experience," "Three Nights in a Bar Room," "Whiskers on a Baby's Face"

A song of a Jacobite in hiding when a household was divided against itself after the rebelIion of 1715 or 1745 (first printed in 1776). The song was probably much older and adapted for the last occasion for flight and concealment.