{"id":606,"date":"2014-12-16T20:54:16","date_gmt":"2014-12-16T20:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.petercookie.com\/?p=606"},"modified":"2016-01-07T16:10:41","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T16:10:41","slug":"my-gruel-my-gruel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sssa.llc.ed.ac.uk\/whalsay\/2014\/12\/16\/my-gruel-my-gruel\/","title":{"rendered":"My gruel, my gruel"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mp3jWrap_0\" class=\"mjp-s-wrapper s-graphic unsel-mjp  sdl_right\" style=\"font-size:18px;\"><span id=\"playpause_wrap_mp3j_0\" class=\"wrap_inline_mp3j\" style=\"font-weight:700;\"><span class=\"gfxbutton_mp3j play-mjp\" id=\"playpause_mp3j_0\" style=\"font-size:18px;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span>&nbsp;<span class=\"group_wrap\"><span class=\"bars_mp3j\"><span class=\"loadB_mp3j\" id=\"load_mp3j_0\"><\/span><span class=\"posbarB_mp3j\" id=\"posbar_mp3j_0\"><\/span><\/span><span class=\"T_mp3j\" id=\"T_mp3j_0\" style=\"font-size:18px;\">74.13.2<\/span><span class=\"indi_mp3j\" style=\"font-size:12.6px;\" id=\"statusMI_0\"><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div><span class=\"s-nosolution\" id=\"mp3j_nosolution_0\" style=\"display:none;\"><\/span><script>\nMP3jPLAYLISTS.inline_0 = [\n\t{ name: \"74.13.2\", formats: [\"mp3\"], mp3: \"aHR0cDovL3d3dy5zc3NhLmxsYy5lZC5hYy51ay93aGFsc2F5YW5zL3dwLWNvbnRlbnQvdXBsb2Fkcy9zaXRlcy8yLzIwMTUvMDEvNzQuMTMuMi5tcDM=\", counterpart:\"\", artist: \"\", image: \"\", imgurl: \"\" }\n];\n<\/script>\n\n<script>MP3jPLAYERS[0] = { list: MP3jPLAYLISTS.inline_0, tr:0, type:'single', lstate:'', loop:false, play_txt:'&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;', pause_txt:'&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;', pp_title:'', autoplay:false, download:true, vol:100, height:'' };<\/script>\n<p><strong>Jeannie Hutchison \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<em>[There was a Weaver in the North]<\/em>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0SA1974.13.2<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is a distinctly different but brief and attractive version of the bothy song <i>He widna wint his gruel, <\/i>popularised by Aberdeenshire traveller-singer Jimmy McBeath (see <em>Tocher<\/em> no. 12 p. 149 and hear him on the\u00a0\u00a0Tobar an Dualchais website\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tobarandualchais.co.uk\/en\/fullrecord\/26553\/3\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">http:\/\/www.tobarandualchais.co.uk\/en\/fullrecord\/26553\/3<\/span><\/a>\u00a0.)<br \/>\nHis version begins, &#8220;There was a weaver of the North and oh, but he was cruel, The very first night that he got wed he sat and he grat for gruel&#8221;.\u00a0<span class=\"Apple-style-span\">His tune is more modern sounding than Jeannie&#8217;s, however\u00a0and t<\/span>he source of the song is\u00a0a mystery yet to be solved. (Roud index no. 935).<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><em>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0My gruel, my gruel,\u00a0 my heavy gruel, my sad and dowie gruel,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0I\u2019ll ging across the midden and milk the coo, if I should hae me gruel.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><em>There is nae water in the hoose so come to bed my jewel.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>I\u2019l tak me bucket and ging tae a well, for I mun hae me gruel.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><em>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Me gruel, me gruel,\u00a0 my heavy gruel, my sad and dowie gruel,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0I\u2019ll tak me bucket and ging tae a well, for I mun hae me gruel.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><em>There is nae milk intae the hoose so come to bed my jewel.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>I\u2019ll ging across the midden and milk the coo, for I mun hae me gruel. \u00a0 \u00a0<\/em>[laughs]<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><em>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Me gruel, me gruel\u00a0 my heavy gruel, my sad and dowie gruel,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0I\u2019ll ging across the midden and milk the coo, for I mun hae me gruel.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>On another occasion, Jeannie in company with Annie and Betty Poleson talked about other verses and Annie came forth with this\u00a0one:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><em>There is nae sa&#8217;t within the hoose, so come to bed my jewel,<br \/>\n<\/em><em>A grain o&#8217; soot from abeen the crook will serve me with me gruel.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sssa.llc.ed.ac.uk\/whalsay\/2014\/12\/16\/my-gruel-my-gruel\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,35],"tags":[63],"class_list":["post-606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jeannie-hutchison","category-i-p","tag-comic-scots-song"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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