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Origins: old Scots song, Auchenshuggal, Nessie
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Subject: Origins: old Scots song, From: GUEST,Roscoe Date: 17 Sep 12 - 10:25 AM I am searching for an old song my grandfather used to sing when I was a boy that went something along the lines of bonny laddie gang awa'... there's nae loch ness monster there (ava)?... for it's only old MacDougal.... it is a rather old song, perhaps the 20s or 30s. Has anyone ever heard this before? |
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Subject: RE: Origins: old Scots song, Auchenshuggal, Nessie From: Anne Neilson Date: 17 Sep 12 - 11:08 AM Can't say I've ever this -- sounds quite music hall. But maybe you'll be helped in your search by spelling it Auchenshuggle! (It is/was a real place, on the outskirts of Glasgow and I remember as a teenager in the 1950's seeing tramcars heading along Argyle Street eastwards, destination 'Auchenshuggle': it always made me laugh!) |
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Subject: RE: Origins: old Scots song, Auchenshuggal, Nessie From: John MacKenzie Date: 17 Sep 12 - 11:44 AM The Broons cam frae Auchenshoogle :) |
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Subject: RE: Origins: old Scots song, Auchenshuggal, Nessie From: Megan L Date: 17 Sep 12 - 02:37 PM I couldnt find words but i did track down a recording of a musicahll piece by John Tilley called The Loch Ness monster loch ness monster John Tilley As I said i couldnt see words but it might be a starting point |
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Subject: RE: Origins: old Scots song, Auchenshuggal, Nessie From: Anne Neilson Date: 18 Sep 12 - 04:08 AM Oh, the romance of a name! I woke up this morning with a song running through my head -- popular in Glasgow folk clubs in the 60's, it was a parody of the pop song "Last Train to San Fernando". 'Last tram tae Auchenshuggle, Last tram tae Auchenshuggle -- If you miss this one, there'll never be another one! Bee dee bee dee bom bom -- tae Auchenshuggle.' (Apologies for being so unhelpful, but if you wake up with a smile on your face, it's surely worth sharing....) |
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Subject: RE: Origins: old Scots song, Auchenshuggal, Nessie From: Mr Red Date: 18 Sep 12 - 05:09 AM FWIW Kerry Fletcher in a workshop on French dance used the word "shuggle" to refer to a move and explained it as a Scots word meaning to do something akin to a cross between sashay/chassis & shuffle. |
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Subject: RE: Origins: old Scots song, Auchenshuggal, Nessie From: John MacKenzie Date: 18 Sep 12 - 08:29 AM Last Tram tae Auchenshuggle |
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Subject: RE: Origins: old Scots song, Auchenshuggal, Nessie From: GUEST,Roscoe Date: 18 Sep 12 - 07:39 PM thanks for the spelling correction! I'll keep looking and post the results. Been looking for quite some time though, I don't know, perhaps he could have wrote it himself... Thanks everyone... |
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