(translation) Who Will Have Fun With Me? Lyrics - Singles - Mouth Music

O hoireann o, who will hav fun with me? 

Who will flirt with me, who will be nice to me? 

Who will, unless the young men will? 

One day, I took off into the mountain moors 

I came across a nice young lass 

I went over and got her to talk with me 

And I asked her what her surname was 

She said, " I'm a Chisholm" 

And I told her that that was my clan 

She said to me, "I'll have noting to do with you; 

I prefer MacLeans 

And a MacDonald will be coming to see me." 

from Mary Morrison (Barra), School of Scottish Studies archive recording; Hebridean Folk 

Songs, Vol. III, Waulking songs from Vatersay, Barra, Souith Uist, Eriskay and Benbecula. 

After the vigourous process of waulking tweed, young girls would often tease each other 

through 

impromptu 'clapping songs', in which the lead singer would hint of the love interests of 

wome of 

the other girls.