Wee Herd's Whistle, The

DESCRIPTION: ""Oh, he cut a happy sucker from the muckle rodden tree, He trimmed it and he wet it and he thumped it on his knee," and the herdsman plays the whistle. He forgets the "kylie"; he fails in school; at last the teacher burns the lad's whistle
AUTHOR: Charles Murray (source: Byington/Goldstein-TwoPennyBallads)
EARLIEST DATE: 1906 (Chambers' Journal, according to Byington/Goldstein-TwoPennyBallads); collected from Bob Beers 1963
KEYWORDS: music cattle
FOUND IN: US
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Byington/Goldstein-TwoPennyBallads, pp. 43-44, "The Wee Herd's Whistle" (1 text, 1 tune, plus a copy of the original text in the notes on pp. 49-50)
Roud #11488
File: ByGo043

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