Coulter's Candy
"Coulter's Candy", also cried "Ally Bally" or "Ally Bally Bee"[1], is a Scots fowk sang.
The sang wis screivit bi Robert Coultart, umwhile mill-worker in Galashiels[2], in the 1870s tae advertise a hennyseed-flavour candy thit he wuid mak in Melrose an sell aroon the mairkets o Borders touns.[3]
Lyrics
[eedit | eedit soorce]Chorus:
Ally bally, ally bally bee
Sittin on yer mammy's knee
Greetin for a wee bawbee
Tae buy some Coulter's Candy.
Willie wept baith lang and sair
Till he got a penny tae share
Noo he's tumblin doon the stair
Tae buy some Coulter's Candy.
Poor wee Annie was greetin tae
What could poor auld Mammy dae?
But gie them a penny atween them twae
Tae buy mair Coulter's Candy.
Oor wee Jeannie wis lookin affa thin
A rickle o banes covered ower wi skin
Noo she's gettin a wee double chin
Sookin Coulter's Candy.
Here comes Coulter doon the street
The man the bairns aa like tae meet
His big black bag it hauds a treat
It's full o Coulter's Candy.[2]
References
[eedit | eedit soorce]- ↑ "15 famous songs every Scot will know". Scotsman.com. Retrieved 30 August 2020.
- ↑ a b "Coulter's Candy". Scotslanguage.com. Retrieved 30 August 2020.
- ↑ "Legend of sweetie salesman unwrapped". Archived frae the original on 19 October 2013. Retrieved 18 October 2013.