Ellon Feeing Market

Joe Aitken: On Autumn Harvest ah003: Old Songs & Bothy Ballads: For Friendship and for Harmony. Live from the Fife Traditional Singing Festival May 2005.

A comic bothy song where a young man goes to the feeing market to find work.

1: Come aa ye jolly plooman lads that wark amon the grun, Come listen tae ma story if ye want tae hae some fun; I'm nae sae young as I used tae be, some say I've had ma fling, But I feel jist like a ten year aul when I begin tae sing. Chorus: Oh lilta fallooral ido, toora loora lay, I'll caa your horse, I'll sort your nowte, I'll big a ruck o strae, I'm as happy's a lark fae dawn tae dark, singin aa the day, Oh lilta fallooral ido, toora loora lay. 2: At Ellon feeing market noo listen what I say, A mannie spiered gin I could wark a pair a ten hour day, If I could fill muck wi a man - he fairly gart me gape, Says I, "Aul man, far I come fae ye fill muck wi a grape." 3: I bothied far a sax month at a place they caa Buchairn, When I gaed hame, the bothy lads, they took me for a bairn; Wi hornie hands they ate biled spuds, the bothy fleer they'd happit, Wi ma sharny beets I trampit the spuds and said, "I like mine chappit." 4: The nicht I mairrit Mary Anne, I got most awfa fu, When the minister started tae tie the knot there wis a how-dae-ye-do; He says, "What is your name, my man, and have ye got the ring?" But you should hae seen the mannie's face when I began tae sing." Chorus: Oh lilta fallooral ido, toora loora lay, I'll caa your horse, I'll sort your nowte, I'll big a ruck o strae, I'm as happy's a lark fae dawn tae dark, singin aa the day, Oh lilta fallooral ido, toora loora lay.

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