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POEMS in SCOTS for CHILDREN

compiled by BETTE BOYD and MICHAEL ELDER

National Museums of Scotland C&nt&nts

HcMnoiA&d'ge.rine.nts page 5 Bairns The Ballad of Janitor Mackay Picture. Credits 6 Margaret Green 19 Background Tntroc/uctien 7 Helen B Cruickshank ' 21 Snawman J K Annand 21 Ble.tke.rs Schule in June Robert Bain 22 March borrowed frae April The Jeely Piece Song from Chambers Popular Rhymes Adam McNaughtan 24 of Scotland, 1841 page 10 Conscience Walter Wingate 26 AippleTree Traditional 10 Twa-leggit Mice I Saw a Doo Traditional 10 J K Annand 27 The Gundy Man Traditional 11 The Whistle Charles Murray 27 Mince and Tatties J K Annand 11 Breakin Rainbows Tammie Norie (the puffin) Janet Paisley 29 from Shetland 12 Fi'baw in the Street John Smith, Fallow Fine Robert Garioch 30 Anon 12 The Galleon Michael Elder 32 This is the wey the leddies ride Summer Holiday Traditional 13 Lindsay Cole 33 Ah hae a wee dug Anon 14 The Evacuee Jim Blaikie 35 There was a wee bit mousikie Halloween J K Annand 37 Traditional 15 Tatties, Cabbage and Ham Wullie Waggletail (pied wagtail) Jenny S Stewart 37 William Soutar 15 Whit's in There? Traditional 39 Sticks an stanes'll brak ma banes Traditional 16 Matthew, Mark, Luke, John The Tunnel Maurice Lindsay 41 Traditional 16 Bawsy Broon William Soutar 41 Coontit oot The Bogle WD Cocker 43 Helen B Cruickshank 16 The Coming of the Wee Twa wee fishes Anon 17 Malkies Stephen Mulrine 43 The Fause Knicht upon Ballac/s and Battles the Road Traditional 44 Sauchieburn Caroline Bingham 67 The Wee, Wee Man Anon 45 Sherriffmuir Attributed to Rev. Murdoch McLennan 71 B&asti&s The Ballad of Macbeth Doric - Reggae - Spider Rap W D Cocker 72 Sheena Blackhall 48 Bonnie George Campbell The Horny Gollach Anon 48 Anon 76 A Whigmaleerie Sir Patrick Spens William Soutar 49 Traditional ballad 77 Beasties Helen B Cruickshank 49 The Kirk Moose Bauracks Lavinia Derwent 50 A Winter's Song Robert Burns 80 The First Hoolit's Prayer The Lum Hat wantin Ian McFadyen 51 the Croon David Rorie 81 Dandie W D Cocker 52 The Laird o Cockpen The Puddock (the frog) Lady Nairne 82 J M Caie 53 Tammie Treddlefeet The Hen's Lament David Shaw 83 Sheena Blackhall 54 Sea Strain Albert D Mackie 85 The Racing Pigeon There was a Lad Robert Burns 85 Sandy Thomas Ross 55 A Mile an a Bittock The Lost Collie Robert Louis Stevenson 87 W D Cocker 57 The Twa Traivlers 'Glen', A Sheep Dog Sir Donald MacAllister 88 Hilton Brown 57 A Christmas Poem The Moose and the Lion Josephine Neill 89 Robert Stephen 59 The Three Kings Greyfriars Bobby E M Sulley 61 Sir Alexander Gray \ 90 Michael Jimmy Copeland 62 23rd Psalm (ShepherdsVersion) Giraffe Ian Hamilton Finlay 63 Catherine Harvey _ 90 Magnus, daYol Pony/ Auld Lang Syne Robert Burns 91 Magnus, the Christmas Pony (translation) Christine De Luca 64-65 Glossary 93