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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