{"id":4297,"date":"2020-01-21T15:31:31","date_gmt":"2020-01-21T15:31:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/?p=4297"},"modified":"2020-01-21T15:31:31","modified_gmt":"2020-01-21T15:31:31","slug":"fludde","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/?p=4297","title":{"rendered":"Fludde"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today I heard this ballad read out, and after much rootling around I found a sound file<\/a> or two<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Ballad of the Deluge\u00a0\u00a0 by W D Cocker<\/b><\/span> (1882 – 1970)<\/p>\n

The Lord took a staw at mankind,<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

A righteous and natural scunner.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

They were neither tae haud nor tae bind,<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

They were frichtit nae mair by his thunner.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

They had broken ilk edic\u2019 an\u2019 law,<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

They had pitten his saints tae the sword.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

They had worshipped fause idols o\u2019 stane<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI will thole it nae mair\u201d said the Lord.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\u201cAh\u2019m weary wi\u2019 flightin\u2019 at folk <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Ah\u2019ll dicht them clean oot o\u2019 ma sicht!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

But Noah, douce man, ah will spare,<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

For he ettles, pair chiel, tae be richt\u201d.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

So he cryet unto Noah ae day,<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

When naebody else wis aboot.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Sayin\u2019 \u201cHearken ma servant tae Me,<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

An these, Ma commands, cairry oot. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

A great muckle boat ye maun bigg,<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

An ark that can float heich and dry,<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Room in\u2019t for aa yir ain folk,<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

An\u2019 a hantle of cattle forbye.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Then tak ye the fowls o\u2019 the air<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Even unto the big bubblyjocks,<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

And tak ye the beasts o the field<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Whittrocks, an\u2019 foumarts, an\u2019 brocks. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Wal<\/span>e<\/span> ye twa craturs o each,<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

See that nae cratur rebels.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Dinny ye fash aboot fish,<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

They can look after theirsels.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Herd them a\u2019 safely aboard,<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

And aince the Blue Peter\u2019s unfurled.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Ah\u2019ll send doon a forty day flood,<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

An the de’il tak the rest of the warld\u201d.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Sae Noah rocht hard at the job,<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

An searched tae the earth\u2019s farthest borders.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

An\u2019 gaithered the beasts and the birds,<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

And telt them tae staun by for orders.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

His sons, Ham and Japhet and Shem,<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Were thrang a\u2019 this time at the work.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

They had fermed a wheen trees in the wid,<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

An biggit a great muckle ark. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Noo, this wisny done jist on the quait,<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

An\u2019 neebors would whiles gaither roon.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Then Noah would drap them a hint, like <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cEh, the weather is gaun tae brak doon\u201d.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

But the neebors wi\u2019 evil were blin\u2019,<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

An little jaloused whit wis wrang, saying,<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cOch, that\u2019ll be guid for the neeps\u201d, or<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cOh, the weather\u2019s been drouthy owre lang\u201d. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Then Noah, wi\u2019 a\u2019 his ain folk, <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The beasts and the birds got aboard.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

An\u2019 they steekit the door o\u2019 the ark,<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

And they lippen<\/span>e<\/span>d<\/span> themselves tae the Lord.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Then boom! cam a lashin o\u2019 rain,<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Like the wattest wat day in Lochaber.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The hailstanes like plunkers cam stoat,<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The fields turned tae glaur, and syne glabber<\/span>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

An the burns a\u2019 cam doon in a spate.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

An the rivers ran clean owre the haughs<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The brigs were a\u2019 soopit awa\u2019,<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

An whit had been dubs, becam lochs.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Then the folk were sair pitten aboot,<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

An they cried, as the weather got waur,<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cOh Lord, we ken fine we hae sinned,<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

But a joke can be cairried owre faur\u201d. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Then they chapped at the ark\u2019s muckle door,<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Tae speir gin douce Noah had room,<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

But Noah ne\u2019er headed their cries,<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

He said \u201cThis\u2019ll learn ye tae soom\u201d.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

An the river roared loudly an\u2019 deep,<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

An the miller was droond in the mill.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

An the watters spread owre a\u2019 the land,<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

An the shepherd was droond oan the hill.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

But Noah and aa his ain folk,<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Kept safe fae the fate o\u2019 ill men.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Til the ark, when the flood had gien owre,<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Cam dunt! on the tap o\u2019 a ben. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

An\u2019 the watters rowed back tae the seas,<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

An\u2019 the seas settled doon an\u2019 were calm.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

An\u2019 Noah replenished the earth,<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

But they\u2019re sayin, he tuik a good dram! <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

*Whittrocks, an\u2019 foumarts, an\u2019 brocks.<\/p>\n

= weasels, and polecats and badgers.<\/p>\n

**lippened<\/p>\n

lippen<\/b>\u00a0[l\u026apn]
\nv.<\/i> To trust, rely or depend on, have confidence in a person to do something. With tae<\/i> or wi<\/i>: to entrust something to someone or someone with something. To expect, look for with anticipation, count on, reckon.<\/span><\/p>\n

Note – badgers saved for posterity,\u00a0 most important.<\/p>\n

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Today I heard this ballad read out, and after much rootling around I found a sound file or two. The Ballad of the Deluge\u00a0\u00a0 by W D Cocker (1882 – 1970) The Lord took a staw at mankind, A righteous and natural scunner. They were neither tae haud nor tae bind, They were frichtit nae […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}