Context:
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Culross, Fife, Scotland (NS9885) |
| Year: |
Perf. 1893 |
| Time of Occurrence: |
[Not given] |
| Collective Name: |
[Not given] |
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Source:
G.B.C.
[Title unknown]
Border Magazine,
Jul.1920, Vol.25, No.295, p.108
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Cast:
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Text:
[King of Macedonia]
Here come I, the great King of Macedonia,
Conquered all the world round.
When first I came to Scotland my heart was so cold
To see this little nation so proud and so bold,
So proud and so bold, so frank and so free,
That I called upon Gallachen to fight along with me.
[Gallachen]
Here come I, Gallachen -
Gallachen is my name -
My sword and pistol by my side,
I hope to win the game.
[King of Macedonia]
The game, sir, the game, is not within your power,
For with this little weapon I'll slay you in less than half an hour.
[Gallachen]
What's that you say?
[King of Macedonia]
I say what I mean.
[Gallachen]
Well, let us begin, {dead man}
[Unknown]
Any doctors in this town?
[Doctor Brown]
Yes, here come I, the little Doctor Brown,
The best old doctor in the town.
[Unknown]
What can you cure?
[Doctor Brown]
The rout, the gout, the ringworm, and the scurvy!
[Unknown]
Do you think you could cure a dead man?
[Doctor Brown]
Oh, well, I'll try.
Here's a little box of inkey-pinkey
I got from my great-grandmother-in-law.
Put a little on his back,
put a little on his head.
Rise up. Jack, and sing a song.
[Loser]
Once I was dead, but now I'm alive -
Blessed be the doctor who made me alive! -
And we'll all join hands, and we'll never fight no more,
And we'll be happy comrades, as we were before.
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Notes:
Indexers Notes:
Scanned from the transcript in:
B.Hayward (1992) Galoshins : The Scottish Folk Play. Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 1992, ISBN 07486 0338 7, pp.138-139
Haywards Notes:
The informant was taught the text by an uncle from Culross in 1893.
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File History:
2002-02-22 - Scanned and Coded by Peter Millington
2021-01-15 - TEI-encoded by Peter Millington
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