Folk and Traditional Song Lyrics:
Yere Ma Wee Gallus Bloke Nae Mair

Ye're Ma Wee Gallus Bloke Nae Mair

Ye're Ma Wee Gallus Bloke Nae Mair
     Oh, ye're ma wee gallus bloke nae mair.
     Oh, ye're ma wee gallus bloke nae mair.
     Wi' yer bell-blue strides,
     An' yer bunnet tae the side,
     Oh, ye're ma wee gallus bloke nae mair.
     As I went by the sweetie works, ma hert began tae beat,
     Watchin' a' the fact'ry lassies walkin' doon the street,
     Wi' their flashy, dashy petticoats, their flashy, dashy
        shawls,
     Five an' tanner gutty boots, "Oh we're big gallus
        molls!"
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     Buchan 101 SS (1962), with music, "adapted from the
singing of Josh Shaw"; a Glasgow street song.  Coll. by the
ed., also, Glasgow, 1957. Var. in Tradition I (1966), 16: As
I went doon the Gallowgate/ Seein' . . . comin'.  Jeannie
Robertson (cassette "What a Voice", side A 7 (5) has a
version from c. 1915: We are three wee Glasgae molls,/ We can
let you see,/ An' if you hate the one wee moll/ Ye'll hate
the heart of three./ Flashy/ Flashy/ Twelve an' a tanner's
worth of boots,/ And a'm a gallus moll. [See Opies Singing
Game (1985), 383-4, under "Sailors Sailing on the Sea", no.
106

MS
oct99