25 Feb 18 - 11:03 AM (#3907857) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Cock o' the North From: GUEST,Mick Pearce (MCP) Forgot to add. A transcription appeared at 23 Aug 03 in the thread: Lyr Add: Cock of the North, a thread really about the Australian The Sailor Home from the Sea (Oh cock of the north with a dream in your hand...). That transcription contains the above errors and more. This should be the preferred reading for the Andy Stewart song. Mick |
26 Feb 18 - 10:10 AM (#3908088) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Cock o' the North From: Tattie Bogle 'Twas me there, all uncookied. |
27 Feb 18 - 04:28 AM (#3908219) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Cock o' the North From: GUEST,threelegsoman Thanks to Mick, I have now uploaded my own version: https://youtu.be/YS-_C2Jq2GU Thanks once more to Mick and Mudcat. |
27 Feb 18 - 11:35 AM (#3908351) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Cock o' the North From: GUEST Nathin' worse thin an "uncookied" tattie bogle! It's rite wersh so it is. . |
16 Jul 24 - 01:35 PM (#4205581) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Cock o' the North From: GUEST "Russia" to the fourth should be *Ross-shire* to the fourth |
17 Jul 24 - 12:11 AM (#4205608) Subject: ADD Version: Cock o' the North From: Joe Offer I'm going to take the transcription from Threelegsoman (above) and the corrections from Mick Pearce and see if we can come up with a perfected version, such as it is. Be sure to pay attention to the Threlegsoman video, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YS-_C2Jq2GU. THE COCK O' THE NORTH Ah, as I gaed doon, by Glasgae Toon a lad I chance to see. He wore a feather in his cap, and tartan on his knee. A lassie walked there by his side and as the men gaed by, The lassie looked at everyone and then I heard her cry.
Oh gie to me the lad you'll see from Ross-shire to the Forth, The voice in lilt the swing of the kilt, man, that's the Cock O' the North. Your Spanish Joe, and your Frenchie beau, and other kinds of males The lads they say from USA are very hard to beat, And way Down Under you would wonder at the men you'll meet. CHORUS Sae gie... Now you'll see him down in London Town, you'll know him by his eyes. They're proud and free and blue to see, as any highland skies. As he swings along he sings a song that tells you where he's from. To Scotland's Isles and bens and kyles he surely must belong. CHORUS Sae gie... Oh, the lads who come from Inverness, from Ross-shire or Kintyre, Will meet a lass and soon we'll ha’e her bonnie heart on fire. She'll loo the lad, she'd want him bad she even join his clan She kens nae other lad could love her like a Highland man. CHORUS Sae gie.... The handy sandy fine and dandy lad, The Cock O' the North, hee, the Cock O' the North. Any additional corrections? Sorry, but I don't buy "*Ross-shire* to the fourth." Ross-shire: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross-shire Andy Stewart recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cztv_5kXja8 |
17 Jul 24 - 05:46 AM (#4205617) Subject: RE: Origins: Cock o' the North From: GUEST It is ross-shire just that we say it faster so its heard as "ross sure" |