| Author | Topic: Add: The Shuttle Rins | |
| dmcg | Posted - 30 Jan 05 - 07:49 pm | |
The weaver's wife sits at the fire And works the pirn wheel. She likes to hear her own good man Drive on the shuttle weel. (Chorus) The shuttle rins, the shuttle rins, The shuttle rins wi' speed; Oh sweetly may the shuttle rin, That wins the bairns' bread. Thread after thread makes up the claith Until the wage he wins, And ilka weaver maks the mair, The mair his shuttle rins. He rises early in the morn He toils till late at night He fain would independent be, He knows what is his right. The proudest o' the land would pine Without the waever's wark The pampered priest, the haughty peer Would go without a sark. Source: Singing Together, Autumn 1984, BBC Publications Notes: Source simply identified as 'Scotland' | ||
| Malcolm Douglas |
Posted - 30 Jan 05 - 10:45 pm | |
The song is originally from Henry Symes's book Poems and Songs Chiefly for the Encouragement of the Working Classes (1849). The Shuttle Rins appeared in Norman Buchan and Peter Hall, The Scottish Folksinger (1973) and has subsequently been recorded by various people, including Gordeanna McCulloch. The tune is one of those associated with the older song The Boatie Rows. Whether that tune was intended for it by Symes, or whether it was added by Buchan and Hall, I don't know. The dialect of the Buchan-Hall text is rather ironed out in Singing Together, and lacks several verses. See Mudcat thread Lyr Req: the shuttle runs Not really a traditional song (though perhaps assumed to be by 1984), so not listed in Roud. | ||