Not Just For Burns Night Traditional Scots Song, Music and Language Resources for Teachers For Secondary Schools 1 This book is dedicatit tae the memory o Sheila Douglas, bonny fechter fur Scotland’s glory an traditions. 2 Not Just For Burns Night Traditional Scots Song, Music and Language Resources for Teachers For Secondary Schools Ewan McVicar Gallus Publishing Linlithgow 3 Copyright on material in this book is shared by Ewan McVicar, Linda McVicar and Katherine Campbell. The book is edited by Ewan McVicar. The book was published with financial assistance from West Lothian Council. All rights reserved. The moral right of the author has been asserted. First published in Great Britain in 2013 by Gallus Publishing 84 High Street Linlithgow EH49 7AQ 01506 847935 [email protected] No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any other means without permission in writing from the publisher, except by a reviewer who wishes to quote brief passages, or by a teacher who wants to use up to 20% of the book’s material in work with a class during a twelve month period. ISBN 978 0 9565990-9-4 Edited, designed and brought to press by Ewan McVicar 4 Introduction 7 Website resources for Scots Song & Music and Scots Language 8 Traditional Instruments, Song and Tune Types 10 Finding recordings of the songs and tunes 11 Young People Performing 12 Friday Barney 12 Caledonia 14 National Centre For Excellence, Plockton 15 What Can A Young Lassie? 16 Fisherman’s Lassie 18 Flowers Of The Forest 20 Shift And Spin 22 Instrumental Music 24 Stone Age Band 24 Mrs MacLeod Of Raasay 25 I Got A Kiss Of The King’s Hand 27 Hector The Hero 28 West Lothian Work And Story Songs 29 The Roke And The Wee Pickle Tow 30 The Bonnie Lass O Livingstane 32 Jessie O The Dell 34 5 The Red Bings Of West Lothian 36 Our Town Livingston 38 Scots Language And Nation 40 A Dyker’s Compliments To Her Neighbours 40 Peterhead Fisherman’s Wife 42 The Bloody Fields Of Flanders 44 The Freedom Come-All-Ye 46 Ding Dong Dollar 48 Ae Fond Kiss 50 My Ain Countrie 52 Robert Burns Songs 54 Contents of ‘Scotland’s Songs’ website – Performers 55 Flowchart for ‘Scotland’s Songs’ website 56 Note on Listing of Songs and Tunes 57 Glossary 60 6 INTRODUCTION This version of the Not Just For Burns Night book is made for the use of teachers in music departments in West Lothian secondary schools, and other Education Department staff of West Lothian Council. This version has sections on Young People performing, Instrumental Music with notation, West Lothian songs, and Scots Language and Nation songs. THE OTHER VERSIONS OF THIS BOOK There are two other versions of this book, one for Nursery to P3 teachers and one for P4 to P7 teachers. Each version has age-appropriate song lyrics and website addresses for recordings of and further details about songs and tunes, notes on using them in class, useful website addresses, ways of using Scots language in school, and basic information on Scottish traditional musical instruments, song and tune types. The Nursery to P3 version of this book has activity songs, songs for very small people, songs about people, fun songs, songs about animals and insects, songs for celebration, tunes, rhymes, riddles, and games. Playground supervisors also will find the games and rhymes material useful. The P4 to P7 Pupils version of this book has fun songs, story songs, West Lothian songs, work songs, Robert Burns songs, and information about After School Clubs and about using traditional instruments in class. Schools and nurseries have copies of the CDs each version of the book is based on. 7 PLEASE NOTE The material in each book is based on our websites, which have much more information, including recordings of songs and tunes, many more song lyrics, transcriptions of tunes, and more. The book is intended as a handy quick information source, but also a reminder of what more you can find online. WEBSITE RESOURCES FOR SCOTS SONG & MUSIC AND SCOTS LANGUAGE The site http://greatscotssongs.webs.com/ has links to all the websites detailed in this book and many more. This book is in large part a handy printed version of material that has been created for websites on Scots song and music. In particular the Education Scotland website Scotland’s Songs at http://www.educationscotland.gov.uk/scotlandssongs/about/ instruments/index.asp [or Google Scotland’s Songs LTS] has recordings of 120+ Scots songs and 60+ tunes, some in multiple versions so that there are 250+ tracks in all, plus much material about Gaelic song and music. Notes on tracks include music notation, lyric, account of the item's maker, history and associated anecdotes. The ‘Scotland’s Songs’ site we made for Education Scotland, has a long url address. Find it more easily by Googling ‘Scotland’s Songs LTS’. See below for more detail about the Scotland’s Songs site. More materials that were created for the Scotland’s Songs site but not used there can be found at 8 http://scotlandssongsextra.webs.com/. Sections include a Glossary for the site, a Guidance Booklet for teachers with detailed suggestions for use of some of the material, Listings, Notes, details about the Performers and Makers who feature on the site, and about a resource for class use called The Great Scots Treasure Hunt. Go to http://scotssangsfurschools.webs.com/ for many more old and new Scots song lyrics and recordings under such thematic headings as Scotland Sings Songs, For Small People, Tunes To Play On Moothie & Kazoo. There are sections on Songs About Animals, Families & People, School Life, Jacobites, Wars Of Independence, Coalmining, The Sea, Thread & Cloth, The Desperate Journey, along with dozens of examples of new thematic songs made with school classes using old tunes. Users of this site can contact the editor for help in getting mp3 recordings of the songs sent to them. Secondary school and primary P6 and P7 pupils who want to learn more about the background, alternative versions, and the makers of 150 popular traditional and newer Scots ballads and songs, will find much rich material on these topics at http://sangstories.webs.com/. This site is created and maintained by Linda McVicar. Resources for using Scots language in school: there are brilliant online resources for schools at http://www.scuilwab.org.uk/, from Scottish Language Dictionaries; the Scots Language Centre has much invaluable material online at http://www.scotslanguage.com/. 9 SCOTTISH TRADITIONAL MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS, SONG AND TUNE TYPES On the Scotland’s Songs website you will find detailed accounts, with recorded illustrations, of the information given briefly here. SONGS On the Scotland’s Songs website is information on the following kinds of Scottish songs – ballads, children’s songs, lullabies and dandling, narrative songs, puirt-á-beul, Jacobite songs, work songs, pibroch songs, Gaelic psalms, songs of love and courtship and loss. TUNES On the Scotland’s Songs website is information on the following kinds of Scottish tunes – hornpipes and waltzes, jigs, marches, reels, slow airs, strathspeys. INSTRUMENTS The instruments traditionally used to play Scotland’s music are the clàrsach or small harp, the bagpipes, the fiddle and the accordion. Nowadays other instruments are also used – the guitar, flute, whistle, harmonica or mouthorgan, banjo, keyboards, drums and more. For information about instruments used to play Scottish music see http://www.educationscotland.gov.uk/scotlandssongs/about/ instruments/index.asp or Google Scotland’s Songs LTS. 10 SONGS AND TUNES TO USE The following songs and tunes follow the sequence of the linked CD ‘Great Scots Songs For Secondary Pupils’. They can also be found online at the indicated web addresses, with details of recordings and performers, and information about the histories and contexts of the songs and tunes. FINDING RECORDINGS OF THE SONGS AND TUNES What the information boxes on following pages indicate. HEAR THIS SONG On CD track 1 HEAR THIS SONG This song is on the CD On CD track 1 ‘Great Scots Songs For In Scotland’s Songs Secondary Pupils In Scots Sangs Fur Schools HEAR THIS SONG ‘In Sangstories is much In Scotland’s Songs more information’ This song is on the Education Scotland website ‘Scotland’s Songs’ HEAR THIS In Sangstories is SONG much more information On the website The Sangstories website Scots Sangs Fur has much detailed Schools information on the song but no recording 11 Young People Performing The following songs are performed on the CD, and some of them are composed, by secondary school pupils. FRIDAY BARNEY HEAR THIS SONG Two Carnwath Youth Theatre members On CD track 1 sing their own song, arguing about going and in Scotland’s out. Many teenage girls, and many parents, Songs will recognise this conversation. Where are you going, what are you doing? When are you going to be back? Get that make-up off, get those legs covered up, You are not going out dressed like that! Oh come off it Dad, won't you gimme a break, Are you just going to get off my back? Just open your wallet and gimme some dosh, And don't give us none of your crack. I'm not goin drinkin, I won't have a smoke, And the boys will be kept out the way, So give us the money, I'm going to a club 'Cos Friday's the night for a rave. 12 Don't give us yer cheek, lady, up to your room, I don't want any more of your lip.