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Eetum Peetum/Eenerie Twaarie

Date 29 July 1961
Track ID 41690
Part 1

Track Information

Original Track ID

SA1961.89.B18; SA1961.89.B19

Original Tape ID

SA1961.089

Summary

Two Shetland counting-out rhymes:

Eetum peetum penny pie,
Jinkum joorum jenny J,
White fish, black troot,
Gibbie Gaa, du's oot.

Eenerie twaarie tuckerie seven,
Alipa cacapa tenepa 'leven,
Pin pan muskydan,
Twidelum twadelum twenty-wan.

Item Notes

For 'Eetum Peetum' (Roud Folk Song Index no. 20441), see:
'Nursery Rhymes of England' (J. Halliwell, 1886) p. 188
'Miscellanea of the Rymour Club' vol. 3 (Edinburgh, 1928) p. 107

For 'Eenerie Twaarie' (Roud 19296), see:
'I Saw Esau' (P. & I. Opie, 1947/1992) p. 66
'Doh Ray Me, When Ah Wis Wee' (E. McVicar, 2007) p. 82
'Miscellanea of the Rymour Club' vol. 1 (Edinburgh, 1906-1911) p. 164; vol. 2 (Edinburgh, 1912-1919) p. 94
'Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes' (P. & I. Opie, 1951) pp. 335-336

Recording Location

County - Shetland

Parish - Lerwick

Island - Shetland Mainland

Village/Place - Lerwick

Language

Scots

Collection

SoSS

Classification

R20441 R19296

Source Type

Reel to reel

Audio Quality

Good