Cauld Kail in Aberdeen
Appearance
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'There's cauld Kail in Aiberdeen' is a poem colleckit bi Robert Burns, frae the Scotland period.[1] It is etherly kent bi the name o 'There's cauld kail in Aberdeen, and castocks in Strabogie'.
Meanin o the sang
[eedit | eedit soorce]This sang is said tae hae different meanin, bat is maist a jayfull sang, whilka is sang wi joy. It coud hae the fallawin meanin: the puirness o the peasant is said tae interrupt the dish (cogie), he widna gie it sae precious it is, far it hae the importance o the life in the Medieval eige.
Wit is ca'd kail in Aiberdeen? The cogie, in Inglis: 'broth'.
The sang itself
[eedit | eedit soorce]Owerwird (efter each morceau)
- Ma coggie, Sirs, ma coggie, Sirs,
- I cannae want ma coggie:
- I wadna gie ma three-girr'd cap,
- For e'er a quean on Bogie.
- 1.
- There's cauld "kail" in Aberdeen*,
- An "castocks" in Strabogie,
- When ilka lad maun hae 'is lass,
- Then fye, gie me ma coggie.
- 2.
- There's Johnie Smith has got a wife
- That scrimps him o' his coggie,
- If she were mine, upon ma life
- I wad douk her in a bogie.
Sang bi
[eedit | eedit soorce]This sang is sang bi Ewan MacColl in the album Songs of Robert Burns.[2]
Articles outwith
[eedit | eedit soorce]- The 'Scots Musical Museum' - Volume II, song 162, page 170 - 'Cauld Kail in Aberdeen' Archived 2015-02-21 at the Wayback Machine (frae Burns Scotland wabsteid)
- Cauld Kail in Aberdeen Archived 2013-03-06 at the Wayback Machine (frae Glasgow Guide wabsteid)
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References
[eedit | eedit soorce]- ↑ "There's Cauld Kail In Aberdeen". www.robertburnsfederation.com. Retrieved 23 Januar 2023.
- ↑ "Ewan MacColl: Songs of Robert Burns". mainlynorfolk.info. Retrieved 23 Januar 2023.