Toorn-a Ma Goon

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Toorn-a Ma Goon  
Sung by Jimmy McBeath.

Recorded by Alan Lomax in Elgin, Morayshire, Scotland, in 1951.  Tune is  "Orange and Blue," aka "The Blue Bonnets."

It's toorn-a, ripp-ed-a, toorn-a ma goon-o,
Toorn-a, ripp-ed-a, toorn-a ma goon-o,
Toorn-a, ripp-ed-a, toorn-a ma goon.
Did ye ever see such an ill-trickered loon?

Jimmy McBeath said about this example, "It's a kids' song. A boy and a girl started fighting, and he tore the gown off her back. She went home and told her mother that it had been ripped, torn, and tattered by an ill-trickered loon."


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