Chord Req: Scottish Love Song

Subject: Chord Req: Scottish Love SOng
From: GUEST,desperate fokie
Date: 24 Oct 05 - 01:56 PM

anyone know what song these lyrics belong to. it is an ol scottish love song.

I only have the first line.

"Why should abreast young lassie be forced to wear a feckless old man".

This has eluded me for months. Mudcat was my last chance.

Subject: RE: Chord Req: Scottish Love SOng
From: GUEST
Date: 24 Oct 05 - 02:21 PM

anybody?

Subject: RE: Chord Req: Scottish Love SOng
From: GUEST
Date: 24 Oct 05 - 02:22 PM

please?????????????????????

Subject: RE: Chord Req: Scottish Love SOng
From: Scotus
Date: 24 Oct 05 - 02:31 PM

Here's my info from a previous thread, desperate folkie -

Why should I a brisk young lassie
Be forced to wed a feckless (feeble) auld man
Hoastin'(coughing) an hirplin'(limping) a lameter (crippled) body
I'll dee far raither than gie him ma han'

Kirk (church) or mercat (market)ay he follows me
Gapin', glowerin'(scowling) till I fain ban (curse)
Then at oor ingle-neuk (fire side)ilka (every) day haverin'(talk nonsense)
I'll dee far raither than gie him ma han'

A' ma freens are like tae deave (deafen) me
Boot (about) hoose and hame and siller and land
Deil tak the siller and land a' thegither
I'll dee far raither than gie him ma han'

My ain jo (sweetheart), he's young an bonnie
Though he's puir he's ay guid tae me
I'll hae nae man but ma ain dearest Johnny
And ne'er the auld man although I should dee


I've assumed you can work out the others which are closer to English. The language of the song is Scots, not Gaelic.

Jack Beck

Subject: RE: Chord Req: Scottish Love SOng
From: DavidHannam
Date: 24 Oct 05 - 02:31 PM

sorry!!!! Wish i could help. have spent ten mins looking for it via google. no luck. people on here are very good at these things mind, (far better than me) so you might be in luck.

Subject: RE: Chord Req: Scottish Love SOng
From: GUEST,desperate folkie
Date: 24 Oct 05 - 02:33 PM

Hehe i knew somehow i didnt hear the lyrics quite right. how embarrasing . many many many thanks scotus.

Subject: RE: Chord Req: Scottish Love SOng
From: GUEST,Wullie
Date: 24 Oct 05 - 05:21 PM

Well done, Scotus, but the the language is Scottish, not Scots which is not an adjective, but the plural of Scot.

Subject: RE: Chord Req: Scottish Love SOng
From: Scotus
Date: 24 Oct 05 - 07:46 PM

So what does that say about the Scots Dictionary?

Jack

Subject: RE: Chord Req: Scottish Love SOng
From: Malcolm Douglas
Date: 24 Oct 05 - 08:01 PM

Normal Scots Dictionaries will tell you that "Scots" and "Scotch" are both also correct usage, though a bit old-fashioned and not greatly used nowadays. That doesn't prevent people who think they know better than the lexicographers from arguing the toss, of course.

Subject: RE: Chord Req: Scottish Love SOng
From: Maryrrf
Date: 24 Oct 05 - 08:14 PM

Um, Wullie, I don't recognize you but I do know who Jack Beck is. There's an expression - don't teach your grandmother to suck eggs.... I would venture to say Jack knows what he's talking about.

Subject: RE: Chord Req: Scottish Love SOng
From: masato sakurai
Date: 24 Oct 05 - 08:23 PM

See The Dictionary of the Scots Language (DSL):

SCOTS, adj., n. Also †Scottis, Scotis. Sc. forms of Eng. Scottish, Scotch.
    A. This form of the adj. is the historical descendant of the O.Sc. Scottis (see etym. note), which survived in Scot. into the 19th c. esp. in certain locutions (see below) and has gradually re-established itself as a preferable alternative to the Eng. reduced form Scotch among Sc. speakers when speaking Eng. The full Eng. form Scottish is retained, esp. in contexts where the national or historical aspect of the governed n. is being stressed, as in official or literary usage, e.g. Scottish Army, Scottish burgh, Scottish Church, Scottish Crown, Scottish history, Scottish literature, Scottish Parliament, Scottish regiment, Scottish railways, etc. though Scots would be acceptable usage in all of these exc. phs. the last.

Subject: RE: Chord Req: Scottish Love Song
From: Scotus
Date: 24 Oct 05 - 09:25 PM

Hi Maryrrf,

My granny was a great egg sooker - guid oan ye!

Jack

Subject: RE: Chord Req: Scottish Love Song
From: Scotus
Date: 24 Oct 05 - 09:27 PM

and of course, just to further cloud the issue - the language used to be called Inglis!

jack