Full Description
Dundee Street Songs,Rhymes and Games: The William Montgomerie Collection, 1952 - In 1952 when these songs and rhymes were recorded in Hilltown, Dundee there may not have been a street or playground anywhere where the sound of children singing and playing was part of everyday life. Although there had been Scottish collectors of 'bairn sangs' since the 1820s, it was not until the 1940s that anyone in Scotland audio-recorded the actual sound of playground voices. These recordings of school children captured the vitality of the local dialect, the spontaneity of their language-use outside the classroom, their repertoire of songs, rhymes and games, their musicality , as well as the sounds that echo the speed and accuracy of their hand-eye co-ordination. (Audio links included in the notes).
Contents
CAPTURING THE SOUND OF THE VOICE
STREET SONGS, RHYMES AND GAMES
SINGING GAMES & ACTION SONGS
1. Queen Mary, Queen Mary, my age is sixteen 39
2. All the boys in our town 40
3. Brown bread and brandy-o 40
4. Will ye lay the cushion doon? 41
5. The Hokey-Pokey 42
6. Meh Lad's a Terrie 43
7. The Banks o Aberfeldy 43
8. There Came Three Dukes a-riding 45
9. A Sailor went to sea 49
10. Through the fields 49
11. As I climbed up a Chinese steeple 50
12. Bell-bottom trousers 50
13. Brush your boots and follow 51
14. Down in German-ay 51
15. Down in the meadow where the green grass grows 52
16. German boys they act so funny 52
17. Hill Street girls are happy 52
18. Hoppy-Hoppy is my Name 53
19. I Love Bananas 53
20. I'm a Girl Guide 53
21. I'm a little Dutch girl 54
22. Whaur hae you been aa the day? 54
23. Jelly on the plate 54
24. Little tin soldier stand at attention 55
25. Maypole butter, maypole tea 56
26. She can't go to school without 56
27 The Quartermaster's Store 57
28. Stot, stot, ba, ba 61
29. Tensy, ninesy 61
30. I'm the Monster of Blackness 61
31. Over the garden wall 62
32. Archibald-bald, bald 62
33. The London ball 63
34. Are you going to golf, sir? 64
35. Charlie Chaplin went to France 65
36. Mademoiselle from Armetieres 66
37. Alla Balla and the forty thieves 66
38 Robin Hood and his Merry Men 66
39. The bumbee stung me 69
40. Up and down the ladder in the caravan 70
41. RAF o'er Berlin 70
42. Mary Queen of Scots got her head chopped off 71
43 Knaves and shepherds come away 71
44. I'm a sailor home from sea 75
45. Three wee wifes 77
46. I married a wife 78
47. Poor Lady Lido 80
NOTES ON THE SONGS, RHYMES AND GAMES
FURTHER READING & LISTENING
