© by Christopher Murray Grieve (1892 - 1978)
Country Life
Language: Scottish (Scots)
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bum-clocks = bumble bees
corn-skreich = corncrake
guissay = pig
cray = pigsty
golochs = earwigs
on the ca’ = being rocked
fochin’ = making
Confirmed with The Complete Poems of Hugh MacDiarmid, Volume 1, edited by Michael Grieve and W R Aitken, Penguin Books, Middlesex, 1985, Page 31.
Glossarybum-clocks = bumble bees
corn-skreich = corncrake
guissay = pig
cray = pigsty
golochs = earwigs
on the ca’ = being rocked
fochin’ = making
Authorship:
- by Christopher Murray Grieve (1892 - 1978), "Country Life", appears in Sangschaw, no. 19, William Blackwood & Sons, Edinburgh, first published 1925, copyright © [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Francis George Scott (1880 - 1958), "Country Life", 1923, published 1949 [ voice and piano ], from 35 Scottish Lyrics and other Poems, no. 26, Bayley & Ferguson for The Saltire Society, Glasgow, page 103 [sung text checked 1 time]
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