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Fisherrow (lyrics)
This is a famous song from the Musselburgh area. You can still walk upFisherrow and down to the harbour of the same name. The package includesboth the solo song and two harmony parts so is really useful for group work aswell as a solo song. The church's punishment, in former times, for fornication out of wedlockwas to make the wrongoers sit on the cutty stool (a 3 legged stool), in front ofthe congregation to humiliate them. Eillen Penman was my source for this song.
As I cam in by Fisherrow Muselburgh was near me.
I threw off my mussel poke an courted wi ma dearie.
Upstairs, doonstairs, timmer stairs fears me.
I thocht it lang tae lie ma lane when I'm sae near ma dearie.
O had ma apron bidden doon, the kirk wad ne'er hae kent it.
But noo the word's gaen roon the toon, I fear I canna mend it.
An it's ye mun mount the cutty stool an I maun mount the pillar.
That' the way the puir folks dae because they hae nae siller.