Jeannie Hutchison                                      SA1980.03.13

A lively dandling song sung to Thelma Jamieson’s baby who makes appreciative sounds. It may have been a tune played on the fiddle in Whalsay as a reel.    Roud Index no. 25915.

Oh the laddie leuchd and the lassie leuchd                  [laughed]
And the auld wife loppit her cairds and leuchd
And the auld man he fell ower the pail
And broke his rumple bane an he leuchd      [rump bone]