The Auld Pair o Tawse
Contributors
Fieldworkers
Date
January 1952
Track ID
2733
Part 1
Track Information
Original Track ID
SA1952.15.B3
Original Tape ID
Summary
The singer remembers getting a licking [spanking] as a child, being smacked with bauchles [slippers] and a cane, sent to his room, and slapped on the jaw; but he preferred the tawse [strap]. His mother had cut a pair of straps from an old sheepskin. They were soft and thin and did not hurt though he cried as if they did.
Item Notes
Text transcribed in School of Scottish Studies. 3 verses with chorus.
See:
Willie Mathieson's MSS III:224
Language
Scots
Genre
Collection
Source Type
Reel to reel
Audio Quality
Good