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X: 1 | |||
T: ROCK AND WEE PICKLE TOW | |||
O: 1806 | |||
B: "Caledonian Musical Repository", 1806, p.138-146 | |||
F: http://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/pageturner.cfm?id=87661539 | |||
Z: 2013 John Chambers <jc:trillian.mit.edu> | |||
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w: There was an auld wife had a wee pick-le | |||
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w: tow, And* she wad gae try* the* spin-ning | |||
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w: o't; But loot-ing her down, her rock took a | |||
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w: low, And* that was an ill be-gin-ning o't. | |||
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w: She spat on't, she flet on't, and trampt on its | |||
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w: pow,* But a' that she did on-ly blew up the | |||
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w: low; She curs'd baith the rock and the wee pick-le | |||
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w: tow, A-lack! for the drea-ry spin-ning o't. | |||
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W:2.I've wanted a sark for these eight years and ten, | |||
W: And this was to be the beginning o't; | |||
W: But I vow I shall want it for as lang again, | |||
W: Or ever I try the spinning o't. | |||
W: For never, since ever they ca'd me's they ca' me, | |||
W: Did sic a mishap and mishanter befa' me; | |||
W: Ye shall hae leave baith to hang me and draw me, | |||
W: If ever I try the spinning o't. | |||
W: | |||
W:3.I hae kept a house for these threescore o' years, | |||
W: And never did try the spinning o't; | |||
W: But how I was sacked, foul fa' them that spiers, | |||
W: It minds me upo' the beginning o't. | |||
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W: But women are now-a-days turned sae braw, | |||
W: That ilk ane maun hae a sark, some maun hae twa, | |||
W: The warld was better when the fient ane ava, | |||
W: To hinder the first beginning o't. | |||
W: | |||
W:4.Foul fa' them that ever advis'd me to spin, | |||
W: That had been sae lang o' beginning o't; | |||
W: I weel might hae ended as I did begin, | |||
W: Nor got sic a fear wi' the spinning o't: | |||
W: But they say she's a wise wife wha kens her ain weird; | |||
W: I thought ance on a day it wad never been spier'd, | |||
W: How loot ye the low tak the rock by the beard, | |||
W: When ye gade to try the spinning o't? | |||
W: | |||
W:5.The spinning, the spinning, it gars my heart sab, | |||
W: When I think upon the beginning o't; | |||
W: I thought ere I died to have made me a wab, | |||
W: But still I had weirs o' the spinning o't. | |||
W: But had I nine daughters, as I hae but three, | |||
W: The safest and soundest advice I wad gie, | |||
W: Is that they frae spinning wad keep their hands free, | |||
W: For fear of a bad beginning o't. | |||
W: | |||
W:6.Yet in spite of my counsel, if they will needs run | |||
W: The drearysome task o' the spinning o't, | |||
W: Let them seek a lown place in the heat o' the sun, | |||
W: And there venture on the beginning o't. | |||
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W: But to do as I did, alas and avow! | |||
W: To busk up my rock by the cheek o' the low, | |||
W: Some may say that I had little wit in my pow, | |||
W: And as little to do wi' the spinning o't. | |||
W: | |||
W:7.But yet, after a', there is ae thing that grieves | |||
W: My heart, to think on the beginning o't; | |||
W: Had I won but the length o' ae pair o' sleeves, | |||
W: Then there wad been word o' the spinning o't: | |||
W: Then I'd hae twa washin' and bleached like snaw. | |||
W: And on my twa gardies like muggons to draw, | |||
W: And then fouk wad say that auld Grizzy was braw, | |||
W: And a' was upon her ain spinning o't. | |||
W: | |||
W:8.But gin I wad shog about till a new spring, | |||
W: I should yet hae a bout o' the spinning o't; | |||
W: A mutchkin o' lintseed I'd in the yird fling, | |||
W: For a' the wanchancie beginning o't. | |||
W: I'll gar my ain Tammie gang down to the howe, | |||
W: And cut me a rock o' the withershins grow, | |||
W: O' gude rantry-tree, for to carry my tow, | |||
W: And a spindle o' the same for the twining o't. | |||
W: | |||
W:9.For now when I mind me, I met Maggy Grim, | |||
W: That morning, just at the beginning o't; | |||
W: She was ne'er ca'd chancy, but unlucky and slim, | |||
W: And sae it has far'd o' my spinning o't. | |||
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W: But gin my new rock were ance cutted and dry, | |||
W: Ise a' Maggy's can and her cantrips defy, | |||
W: And, but ony soothing, the spinning I'll try, | |||
W: And yese a' hear o' the beginning o't. | |||
W: | |||
W:10.Quo' Tibby her daughter, tak tent what ye say, | |||
W: The never a rag we'll be seeking o't; | |||
W: Gin ye ance begin, ye'll traverse night and day, | |||
W: Sae it's vain ony mair to be speaking o't. | |||
W: Since Lammas I'm now gane thirty and twa, | |||
W: And ne'er a dud sark had I yet, great or sma', | |||
W: And what waur am I? I'm as warm and as braw | |||
W: As thrummmy-tail'd Meg, that's a spinner o't. | |||
W: | |||
W:11.To labour lint land, and then buy the seed, | |||
W: And then to yoke me to the harrowing o't, | |||
W: And syne hobble amang't, and pick out ilka weed, | |||
W: Like a swine in a sty, at the farrowing o't: | |||
W: Syne bowing, and rippling, and steeping, and then | |||
W: To gar's gae and spread it upon the cauld plain; | |||
W: And then, after a', maybe labour in vain, | |||
W: When the wind and the weet gets the fushon o't. | |||
W: | |||
W:12.But though it should happen the weather to bide, | |||
W: Wi' beetles we're set to the drubbing o't; | |||
W: And then frae our fingers to gudge a' the hide, | |||
W: Wi' the wearisome wark o' the spinning o't. | |||
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W: And syne ilka tait maun be heckled out-through, | |||
W: The lint putten ae gate, anither the tow, | |||
W: Sjne on a rock with it, and it taks a low: | |||
W: The back o' my hand to the spinning o't. | |||
W: | |||
W:13.Quo' Jenny, I think, woman, ye're in the right, | |||
W: Set your feet a-spar to the spinning o't; | |||
W: We may tak our advice frae our ain mither's fright, | |||
W: That she gat when she tried the spinning o't. | |||
W: But they'll say that auld fouk are twice bairns indeed, | |||
W: And sae has she kyth'd it, but there is nae need, | |||
W: To sic an amshah that we drive out o' head, | |||
W: As lang's we're sae scar'd frae the spinning o't, | |||
W: | |||
W:14.Quo' Nancy the youngest, I've now heard you a% | |||
W: And dowy's your doom o' the spinning o't; | |||
W: Gin ye fan, the cow flings, the cog's cast awa, | |||
W: Ye may see where ye'll lick up your winning o't. | |||
W: But I see that by spinning ye'll never be braw. | |||
W: But gae by the name o' a dilp or a daw; | |||
W: But lick where ye like, I shall ance shake a fa', | |||
W: Afore I be dung wi' the spinning o't. | |||
W: | |||
W:15.For weel can I mind me, when black Willie Bell | |||
W: Had Tibbie there, just at the winning o't, | |||
W: What blew up the bargain, she kens weel hersel, | |||
W: Was the want o' the knack o' the spinning o't, | |||
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W: And now, poor woman, for ought that I ken, | |||
W: She never may get sic an offer again, | |||
W: But pine awa, bit and bit, like Jenkin's hen, | |||
W: And naething to wyte but the spinning o't. | |||
W: | |||
W:16.But were it for naething but just that alane, | |||
W: I shall yet hae a bout at the spinning o't; | |||
W: They may cast me, and e'en ca' me black at the bane, | |||
W: But no 'cause I shunn'd the beginning o't. | |||
W: But be that as it happens, I carena a strae, | |||
W: For nane o' the lads e'er shall hae it to say, | |||
W: When he comes to woo, she kens naething ava, | |||
W: Nor has ony can at the spinning o't. | |||
W: | |||
W:17.It's needless for us to tak our remarks | |||
W: Frae our mither's miscooking the spinning o't; | |||
W: She never kend ought o' the gude o' the sarks, | |||
W: Frae this, a' back to the spinning o't. | |||
W: Three ell o' plaiding was a' that was sought | |||
W: By our auld waly bodies, and that boot be bought, | |||
W: For in ilka town sickan things were na wrought, | |||
W: Sae little they kend o' the spinning o't. | |||
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N:John Buttery (1784-1854) joined the 34th Regiment in Lincoln, | |||
N:Lincolnshire, England, in 1797 and served as a fifer until discharged in | |||
N:1814. His large ms. contains marches, duty calls, dance tunes and airs. | |||
N:EASMES identifies this as the Fife MS. and suggests a date of 1780, see | |||
N: https://www.cdss.org/elibrary/Easmes/Index.htm | |||
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S:I got this tune from Proinseas mac Suibhne, who learned to | |||
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S:well known in Tearmann now, except by the older people." | |||
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T:Rock and wee pickle Tow, The
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T: ROCK AND WEE PICKLE TOW
O: 1806
B: "Caledonian Musical Repository", 1806, p.138-146
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w: There was an auld wife had a wee pick-le
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w: tow, And* she wad gae try* the* spin-ning
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w: o't; But loot-ing her down, her rock took a
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w: low, And* that was an ill be-gin-ning o't.
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w: She spat on't, she flet on't, and trampt on its
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w: pow,* But a' that she did on-ly blew up the
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w: tow, A-lack! for the drea-ry spin-ning o't.
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W:2.I've wanted a sark for these eight years and ten,
W: And this was to be the beginning o't;
W: But I vow I shall want it for as lang again,
W: Or ever I try the spinning o't.
W: For never, since ever they ca'd me's they ca' me,
W: Did sic a mishap and mishanter befa' me;
W: Ye shall hae leave baith to hang me and draw me,
W: If ever I try the spinning o't.
W:
W:3.I hae kept a house for these threescore o' years,
W: And never did try the spinning o't;
W: But how I was sacked, foul fa' them that spiers,
W: It minds me upo' the beginning o't.
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W: But women are now-a-days turned sae braw,
W: That ilk ane maun hae a sark, some maun hae twa,
W: The warld was better when the fient ane ava,
W: To hinder the first beginning o't.
W:
W:4.Foul fa' them that ever advis'd me to spin,
W: That had been sae lang o' beginning o't;
W: I weel might hae ended as I did begin,
W: Nor got sic a fear wi' the spinning o't:
W: But they say she's a wise wife wha kens her ain weird;
W: I thought ance on a day it wad never been spier'd,
W: How loot ye the low tak the rock by the beard,
W: When ye gade to try the spinning o't?
W:
W:5.The spinning, the spinning, it gars my heart sab,
W: When I think upon the beginning o't;
W: I thought ere I died to have made me a wab,
W: But still I had weirs o' the spinning o't.
W: But had I nine daughters, as I hae but three,
W: The safest and soundest advice I wad gie,
W: Is that they frae spinning wad keep their hands free,
W: For fear of a bad beginning o't.
W:
W:6.Yet in spite of my counsel, if they will needs run
W: The drearysome task o' the spinning o't,
W: Let them seek a lown place in the heat o' the sun,
W: And there venture on the beginning o't.
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W: But to do as I did, alas and avow!
W: To busk up my rock by the cheek o' the low,
W: Some may say that I had little wit in my pow,
W: And as little to do wi' the spinning o't.
W:
W:7.But yet, after a', there is ae thing that grieves
W: My heart, to think on the beginning o't;
W: Had I won but the length o' ae pair o' sleeves,
W: Then there wad been word o' the spinning o't:
W: Then I'd hae twa washin' and bleached like snaw.
W: And on my twa gardies like muggons to draw,
W: And then fouk wad say that auld Grizzy was braw,
W: And a' was upon her ain spinning o't.
W:
W:8.But gin I wad shog about till a new spring,
W: I should yet hae a bout o' the spinning o't;
W: A mutchkin o' lintseed I'd in the yird fling,
W: For a' the wanchancie beginning o't.
W: I'll gar my ain Tammie gang down to the howe,
W: And cut me a rock o' the withershins grow,
W: O' gude rantry-tree, for to carry my tow,
W: And a spindle o' the same for the twining o't.
W:
W:9.For now when I mind me, I met Maggy Grim,
W: That morning, just at the beginning o't;
W: She was ne'er ca'd chancy, but unlucky and slim,
W: And sae it has far'd o' my spinning o't.
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W: But gin my new rock were ance cutted and dry,
W: Ise a' Maggy's can and her cantrips defy,
W: And, but ony soothing, the spinning I'll try,
W: And yese a' hear o' the beginning o't.
W:
W:10.Quo' Tibby her daughter, tak tent what ye say,
W: The never a rag we'll be seeking o't;
W: Gin ye ance begin, ye'll traverse night and day,
W: Sae it's vain ony mair to be speaking o't.
W: Since Lammas I'm now gane thirty and twa,
W: And ne'er a dud sark had I yet, great or sma',
W: And what waur am I? I'm as warm and as braw
W: As thrummmy-tail'd Meg, that's a spinner o't.
W:
W:11.To labour lint land, and then buy the seed,
W: And then to yoke me to the harrowing o't,
W: And syne hobble amang't, and pick out ilka weed,
W: Like a swine in a sty, at the farrowing o't:
W: Syne bowing, and rippling, and steeping, and then
W: To gar's gae and spread it upon the cauld plain;
W: And then, after a', maybe labour in vain,
W: When the wind and the weet gets the fushon o't.
W:
W:12.But though it should happen the weather to bide,
W: Wi' beetles we're set to the drubbing o't;
W: And then frae our fingers to gudge a' the hide,
W: Wi' the wearisome wark o' the spinning o't.
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W: And syne ilka tait maun be heckled out-through,
W: The lint putten ae gate, anither the tow,
W: Sjne on a rock with it, and it taks a low:
W: The back o' my hand to the spinning o't.
W:
W:13.Quo' Jenny, I think, woman, ye're in the right,
W: Set your feet a-spar to the spinning o't;
W: We may tak our advice frae our ain mither's fright,
W: That she gat when she tried the spinning o't.
W: But they'll say that auld fouk are twice bairns indeed,
W: And sae has she kyth'd it, but there is nae need,
W: To sic an amshah that we drive out o' head,
W: As lang's we're sae scar'd frae the spinning o't,
W:
W:14.Quo' Nancy the youngest, I've now heard you a%
W: And dowy's your doom o' the spinning o't;
W: Gin ye fan, the cow flings, the cog's cast awa,
W: Ye may see where ye'll lick up your winning o't.
W: But I see that by spinning ye'll never be braw.
W: But gae by the name o' a dilp or a daw;
W: But lick where ye like, I shall ance shake a fa',
W: Afore I be dung wi' the spinning o't.
W:
W:15.For weel can I mind me, when black Willie Bell
W: Had Tibbie there, just at the winning o't,
W: What blew up the bargain, she kens weel hersel,
W: Was the want o' the knack o' the spinning o't,
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W: And now, poor woman, for ought that I ken,
W: She never may get sic an offer again,
W: But pine awa, bit and bit, like Jenkin's hen,
W: And naething to wyte but the spinning o't.
W:
W:16.But were it for naething but just that alane,
W: I shall yet hae a bout at the spinning o't;
W: They may cast me, and e'en ca' me black at the bane,
W: But no 'cause I shunn'd the beginning o't.
W: But be that as it happens, I carena a strae,
W: For nane o' the lads e'er shall hae it to say,
W: When he comes to woo, she kens naething ava,
W: Nor has ony can at the spinning o't.
W:
W:17.It's needless for us to tak our remarks
W: Frae our mither's miscooking the spinning o't;
W: She never kend ought o' the gude o' the sarks,
W: Frae this, a' back to the spinning o't.
W: Three ell o' plaiding was a' that was sought
W: By our auld waly bodies, and that boot be bought,
W: For in ilka town sickan things were na wrought,
W: Sae little they kend o' the spinning o't.
W:
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X:1
T:Rock and we pickle Tow
M:6/8
L:1/8
R:Jig
S:The Buttery Manuscript (c. 1784-1820, No. 952)
N:John Buttery (1784-1854) joined the 34th Regiment in Lincoln,
N:Lincolnshire, England, in 1797 and served as a fifer until discharged in
N:1814. His large ms. contains marches, duty calls, dance tunes and airs.
N:EASMES identifies this as the Fife MS. and suggests a date of 1780, see
N: https://www.cdss.org/elibrary/Easmes/Index.htm
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X:1
T:Rock and wee pickle tow, A
M:6/8
L:1/8
S:John Rook music manuscript collection (1840, p. 25)
N:Rook was a multi-instrumentalist from Waverton, near Wigton, Cumbria
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X:1
T:Rock and a wee pickle tow, The
M:6/8
L:1/8
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S:John Rook music manuscript collection (Waverton, Cumbria, 1840, p. 207)
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X:1
T:Wee Pickle Tow, The
M:6/8
L:1/8
R:Jig
S:I got this tune from Proinseas mac Suibhne, who learned to
S:play it from hearing his father whistle it. The tune is not
S:well known in Tearmann now, except by the older people."
B:Padraig Mac Aodh O'Neill - Songs of Uladh (1904, p. 15)
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