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13 Jul 08 - 04:48 PM (#2387957) Subject: Origins: a brown broken bread of something like From: GUEST,i looking foor a song from the corries i was on a camping with scotties people and they song a lyric from the corries and ther was something like this: a brown broken bread and at the and of it was there if you don't married me now you married me in the mearn how k'nows the hole song? sorry for my english I am a dutch woman. |
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13 Jul 08 - 04:58 PM (#2387960) Subject: RE: Origins: a brown broken bread of something like From: Megan L It sounds like an old diddlin tune I will try and find the tune Oh the broon coo's broken oot and aeten aw the corn the broon coo's broken oot and aeten aw the corn the broon coo's broken oot and aeten aw the corn If ye dinny marry Mary ye'll no get her the morn. |
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14 Jul 08 - 05:02 PM (#2388949) Subject: RE: Origins: a brown broken bread of something like From: GUEST thanks this it I'm verry happy |
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30 Mar 09 - 02:50 PM (#2600631) Subject: RE: Origins: a brown broken bread of something like From: Jim Dixon From The Fiddle Tradition of the Shetland Isles by Peter Cooke (Cambridge University Press, 1982) Appendix 4: Texts associated with dancing tunes in oral tradition in Shetland during the 1970s DA BROON COO (MRS MACLEOD OF RAASAY) Da broon coo's broken oot and gaen among da coarn If someone doesn't take her oot de'll be nane left de moarn, So go du in me peerie boy and grab her be da tedder, For tou's a peerie supple ting, no lake de auld don faider. --Haand Me Doon da Fiddle, no. 4. |
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30 Mar 09 - 02:59 PM (#2600636) Subject: RE: Origins: a brown broken bread of something like From: Jack Campin What's the one to the tune of "Orange and Blue" about a bull in a field of heifers? "...Those he disnae fuck today he's gwine tae fuck tomorrow." (From an ex-girlfriend of mine who learned it in Fife in the Fifties; that's all I can remember). |