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I Thowt I Liked Winter

from The Barren Fig (2019) by Bob Leslie

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The tune is my own. The lyric is lightly adapted from a poem by Orcadian artist Ingrid Grieve. I simply edited it for a tighter scansion and added a couple of lines to flesh out the chorus. It's a lovely example of Orcadian Scots.

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I Thowt I Liked Winter
(Adapted, with permission, from a poem by Orcadian poet Ingrid Grieve – additional lyrics © Bob Leslie 2019)

Ah’m seek o this wather
Hid’s attry an grey
Hid’s niver stop rainan fae the turn o the days
Ah’m plitteran aboot in the gutter and weet
An I cunna mind last
Ah hid warm and dry feet.

I thowt I liked winter
Bit ah’m changed ma hert
The wind alwis blows fae the cowldest o erts.
There’s ice an there’s sleet there
tae mak yer face sting
I thowt I liked winter
Nou I long fir the spring.

Me lips are aal chappid
me nose is bright reed
I cunna go withoot a kep on me heed
Ah’m glad o me fire
An a gless o good cheer
Tae help me git by the dark days o the year

Cunna wait fir the spring
tae git gan at a pace,
withoot being bent double wae rain in me face
Bit sat at me fire
I hear a faint bleat, at least
I’ve the good fortune that Ah’m no a sheep.

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from The Barren Fig (2019), released February 20, 2019

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