Sheelicks
Track Information
Original Track ID
SA1960.142.B10
Original Tape ID
Summary
A comic song describing McGinnis's rowdy wedding. Various guests include a souter [cobbler] who loses his wooden leg while dancing, and a man who arrives on a bicycle and leaves in a wheelbarrow.
Item Notes
4 verses of 8 lines with a chorus of 4 lines; extra chorus in the middle of second verse. Composed by George Bruce Thomson (1864-1914).
N.B. Roud Folk Song Index lists this song under two different numbers, with Roud 2518 also referring to another song, 'McGinty's Meal and Ale', by the same composer.
See:
Greig-Duncan vol. 3, p. 475, no. 614
'Kerr's Cornkisters' (W. Kemp & J. S. Kerr, 1950) pp. 60-62
'Travellers' Songs from England and Scotland' (E. MacColl & P. Seeger, 1977) pp. 320-322
'Folk-Song of the North-East' (G. Greig, K. Goldstein, A. Argo, 1963 reprint) art. CXXXIV
Language
Scots
Genre
Collection
Source Type
Reel to reel
Audio Quality
Fair