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In America, the tune was published with country dance directions in G. Graupner's '''Cotillions and Country Dances No. 2''' (Boston, 1808) and John Paff's '''Gentlemen's Amusement No. 2''' (New York, 1812). | In America, the tune was published with country dance directions in G. Graupner's '''Cotillions and Country Dances No. 2''' [https://www.loc.gov/resource/musm1a1.10093.0/?sp=2] (Boston, 1808) and John Paff's '''Gentlemen's Amusement No. 2''' (New York, 1812). | ||
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Carlin ('''Master Collection'''), 1984; No. 149, p. 90 (appears as "Culler Herren"). | Carlin ('''Master Collection'''), 1984; No. 149, p. 90 (appears as "Culler Herren"). | ||
'''Davie's Caledonian Repository'''. | '''Davie's Caledonian Repository'''. | ||
G. Graupner ('''Country Dances and Cotillions, No. 2'''), c. 1808; No. 12, p. 6. | |||
MacDonald ('''The Skye Collection'''), 1887; p. 162. | MacDonald ('''The Skye Collection'''), 1887; p. 162. | ||
Manson ('''Hamilton's Universal Tune-Book, vol. 1'''), 1854; p. 126. | Manson ('''Hamilton's Universal Tune-Book, vol. 1'''), 1854; p. 126. |
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Caller Herrin'
Chorus:
Wha'll buy my caller herrin'?
They're bonnie fish and halesome sarin';
Wha'll buy my caller herrin',
New drawn frae the Forth?
When ye were sleepin' on your pillows,
Dream'd ye aught o' our puir fellows,
Darkling as they fac'd the billows,
A' to fill the woven willows?
Buy my caller herrin',
New drawn frae the Forth.
Chorus:
Wha'll buy my caller herrin'?
They're no brought here without brave darin';
Buy my caller herrin',
Haul'd through wind and rain.
Chorus:
WhaIl buy my caller herrin'?
Oh, ye may ca' them vulgar farin'
Wives and mithers, maist despairing',
Ca' them lives o' men.
Chorus:
When the creel o' herrin' passes,
Ladies-clad in silks and laces,
Gather in their braw pelisses,
Cast their heads and screw their faces,
Chorus:
Caller herrin's no got lightlie:
Ye can trip the spring fu' tightlie;
Spite o' tauntin', flauntin', flingin',
Gow had set you a' a-singing
Chorus:
Neebour wives, now tent my tellin';
When the bonnie fish ye're selling',
At ae word be in yere dealin' -
Truth will stand when a' thin's failing'.
Gow was not the first to find musical inspiration in the cries of street vendors. See also Thomas D'Urfey's "Trader's Medley, or Cries of London" in his Pills to Purge Melancholy (1719–20) and James Oswald's "Cries of Edinburgh (The)" (1760).
In America, the tune was published with country dance directions in G. Graupner's Cotillions and Country Dances No. 2 [1] (Boston, 1808) and John Paff's Gentlemen's Amusement No. 2 (New York, 1812).
See also fiddler-composer John Pringle's adaptation of a street vendor's cry, "Neeps like Sucker whoe’ll buy Neeps."