Folk and Traditional Song Lyrics:
Hurrah Hurrah a Ranogate
Hurrah, Hurrah, a Ranogate
Hurrah, Hurrah, a Ranogate
1.
Hurrah, hurrah, a ranogate,
The nicht afore the fair,
The pipers in the Canongate,
The drums in the air.
My mother gae me the keys to keep,
To wauken me oot o' my mornin' sleep,
The hens shall lay, and the cock shall craw,
Hurrah, hurrah, a ranogate.
2.
Aree, aree, a ranogate,
The pipers in the Canongate,
The drums in the air,
The cock craws, the hen lays,
The nicht afore the fair.
3.
Ree-a-ree, a ranigate,
The pipers i' the Canigate,
The drow is in the air;
The cock craws, the hen lays,
The nicht afore the fair.
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(1-2) James Cockburn on Selkirk rhymes, c. 1840, in SNQ
IV.5 (Oct. 1890), 91. With line 5 of (1), cf. "Babbity
Bowster". Ranogate is a nonce word, for the rhyme, but
probably influenced by rinagate, "renegade".
(3) Rymour Club Misc. I (1906-11), 175, from Dunbar.
"The child who repeated this rhyme oftenest got the
biggest fairing at the Dunbar Fair, held on the first
Monday of February."
WBO
OCT98