Scottish music-hall songs

Subject: RE: Scottish musichall songs
From: akenaton
Date: 19 Jan 04 - 02:15 PM

Guest jonilog...Thanks for posting the song "baby in the hoose".
My grandfather used to sit me on his knee and sing that song to me as a toddler....I remember feeling the most important wee boy in the world..
There is a spoken bit in the song ,and Ill try to remember.
Spoken..."Aye Im his daddy right enough,and when hes auld enough Ill tak him on ma knee ,and sing the sang ma Granny sang tae me"
Sings...."Puir wee thing,
          Im shair ye mon be cauld,
          Tak him on yer knee a wee ,
          rowe him in yer shawl.
          Put him in his cradle,
          Hes gaun tae hushie baw,
          Bantams cocks tails
          cocken leeken,cocken leerie law.

The first verse of the song went,
"The wife and I felt very very lonely for a while
Sitting in the kitchen by oorsells,
Till one day over tea
the wife she told tae me
a secret that a couldnae keep masell.
And at three o clock this mornin,
I was runnin doon the street,
the neebours must have thoucht there was a fire.
But every one was laughin loud ,
when I came back again,
For bye ma side was Doctor McIntyre

And you can come and see the baby ect ect ....Ake

Subject: RE: Scottish musichall songs
From: Jim McLean
Date: 19 Jan 04 - 01:09 PM

Mbo, I wrote a song in the sixties called The Barras or Glasgow's Barrowland. Do you know any words of the song you mentioned?
Jim

Subject: RE: Scottish musichall songs
From: GUEST,harry lauder i'm the saftest o' the family
Date: 19 Jan 04 - 11:14 AM

Subject: RE: Scottish musichall songs
From: Mbo
Date: 30 Apr 00 - 01:33 PM

There's a great Scottish musichall song "The Glasgow Barrowlands" that Fairground Attraction (with Eddi Reader YEAH!) does. It's really funny!!

--Mbo

Subject: RE: Scottish musichall songs
From: Megan L
Date: 30 Apr 00 - 01:29 PM

Thanks all it is so easy to lose the things we took for granted when we were younger.

Subject: Lyr Add: We've Got a Baby in The Hoose^^
From: GUEST,jonilog
Date: 24 Apr 00 - 11:41 AM

We've Got a Baby in The Hoose

You can come and see the baby any time you care to call
He's lying by his Mammy in a wee white shawl
He looks so neat and swanky, like a dumplin' in a hanky
And we're going to call him William Angus Jamieson Jock McColl

Dirrum ado adirrum aday a dirrum ado ma daddio
Dirrum ado adirrum aday and I am his Daddy-o

To the tune of "The Day We Went to Rothesay-o"

Written I believe by Jimmy Logan actor,singer and brother of Annie Ross the Jazz singer

Subject: RE: Scottish musichall songs
From: Malcolm Douglas
Date: 23 Apr 00 - 01:01 PM

The Day We Went To Rothsay-O is on the DT, so I'll let you find that yourself!  It may also be seen, with staff notation, at the Digital Tradition Mirror Site.

Lyrics for Will Ye Stop Yer Ticklin', Jock are at  sirharrylauder.com;  you can listen to him singing it, on cylinder, either  here or  here.

I'm The Saftest o' the Family is also at sirharrylauder.com,  here.

Malcolm

Subject: Scottish music hall songs
From: Megan L
Date: 23 Apr 00 - 08:19 AM

I was brought up with a lot of the old music hall song but over the years some of the words have faded from my memory. I would love to get the words forthe following songs:

Day we went to Rothesay
We've a baby in the hoose
Will ye stop yer ticklin Jock
I'm the saftest o the family
Sailing up the clyde

Be patient if I don't get back to thank you right away, my phone bill has just come in and hubby is threating to do dreadfull things if I spend all my time at mudcat.

Suppose I better give him a little TLC for a while.