I'm No Comin Oot the Noo

Àireamh a' Chlàir Thùsail

SA1960.116.B7

Àireamh an Teip Thùsail

SA1960.116

Geàrr-chunntas

In this comic music-hall song, the singer has asked Jeannie MacKay out, but is unable to leave the house as his mother has pawned his clothes. He is later put in prison for not paying for a coat he bought. In this "grand hotel" he is bothered by fleas in his bed and tries applying Keating's Powder; echoing his own words to Jeannie MacKay, the fleas tell him, "We're no comin oot the noo."

Belle Stewart learned the song around six to eight months previously from Tommy Bonthrone, who works in London.

Notaichean a' Chlàir

3 verses of 5 lines, with a chorus of 4 lines; hesitation during verse 2 - tape stops, and singer resumes again from start of verse 2. Music-hall song.

See:
'Come Gie's a Sang' (S. Douglas, 1995) pp. 94-95
'Till Doomsday in the Afternoon' (E. MacColl & P. Seeger, 1986) pp. 266-268

Àite Clàraidh

Cànan

Beurla, Albais

Seòrsa

Òran Fiosrachadh

Cruinneachadh

SoSS

Seòrsachadh

R5298

Cruth Inneal a' Chlàir

Reel to reel

Càileachd an Fhuaime

Meadhanach Math