Banks of Sicily (51st Highland Division's Farewell)

[Lachlan09]

I presume that the song I quoted above was written by someone from NE Scotland (aka Gordons country) as no-one else in Scotland speaks like that.

Quaint.

[macwilkin]

I presume that the song I quoted above was written by someone from NE Scotland (aka Gordons country) as no-one else in Scotland speaks like that.

Quaint.

Seamus Mor was from Perthshire, Blairgowrie to be exact.

T.

[Lachlan09]

No offence to people who speak like that. I can't imagine there's as many talk that way as there were 50 years ago.

Ahhh Big Jimmy frae Rattray !

Wow – did my Perthshire Granddad actually talk like that ? Perhaps not – as he came from Dalnaspidal, at the North of the county (not a Gaelic speaker though), but yet again my Dad has told me some of his Dad’s expressions like “foggy toddler” for a ground-crawling bumble- bee and “eyes like puggy’s ba’s” for someone with startled eyes (puggy = monkey). My Dad doesn’t talk like the poem though – he’s an Argyll man born in Tighnabruaich and raised in Clachan, Kintyre - aka God's Country.

[macwilkin]

No offence to people who speak like that. I can't imagine there's as many talk that way as there were 50 years ago.

Ahhh Big Jimmy frae Rattray !

Wow – did my Perthshire Granddad actually talk like that ? Perhaps not – as he came from Dalnaspidal, at the North of the county (not a Gaelic speaker though), but yet again my Dad has told me some of his Dad’s expressions like “foggy toddler” for a ground-crawling bumble- bee and “eyes like puggy’s ba’s” for someone with startled eyes (puggy = monkey). My Dad doesn’t talk like the poem though – he’s an Argyll man born in Tighnabruaich and raised in Clachan, Kintyre - aka God's Country.

You have to remember though that Hamish Henderson wasn't your typical squaddie -- he was a bit of a folklorist and ethnomusicologist in the same vein as Burns.

T.