Traditional & Folk Songs with lyrics, midis & Mp3
Treacle Scones
Treacle Scones
Treacle Scones
Treacle scones they were made,
Thick wi' butter they were spread,
And on the table they were laid,
An' ready for the waddin', O
Durrum a doo a di a day,
Durrum a doo a daddy, O,
Durrum a doo a di a day,
Hurrah for the tinker's waddin', O.
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From Helen Rodger Shoolbraid, Leslie, Fife, c. 1934.
This is a folk-verse of a fairly well-known 19th-century
comic song, "The Tinklers' Waddin'", written by William Watt
(1792-1859), in (e.g.) Ford Vagabond Songs I (1899), 1 (with
music). Watt wrote it to the tune Monymusk, but it has long
been sung to a set of Last Farewell to Stirling, also used
for the Glasgow convivial song "Rothesay-oh". MS
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