Thursday 4 September 2014

Jorum-Jirger (Fiddler?); Robert Tannahill and Douglas Dunn



Lovely words! A fiddler, or a player of the jug?

Douglas Dunn says it means a fiddler.

Robert Tannahill

Another version

"Wi' your clarion, flute, and fiddle,
Wll gar their southron heart-strings diddle".

The Tannahill Weavers The Braes of Balquhidder

The Bonnie Woods of Craigielea

The Poems and Songs of Robert Tannahill (online)

*****

"Burns, Tannahill and Fergusson,
Those jorum-jirgers...."

From "Tannahill" by Douglas Dunn (St Kilda's Parliament).





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