“You... were the best part of the evening! We have gotten many compliments on the entertainment, and demands that, next time, we make room for dancing.”
--Jeff Perry
Music
Twa Corbies
Here's what happens when the Scots get ahold of an English—and romantically unrealistic—song (Three Ravens) about a dead knight. The original melody fell out of the tradition, and the words were treated mainly as poetry until Thurso Berwick joined them to this one (the Breton tune An Alarc'h, or The Swan) in the mid-20th Century.
Feed the birds, guv'nor?
The Soor Milk Cart
Tom Johnstone, known as "The Calton Barber Poet," wrote the original version of this song in the late 1800's. It shares a tune with several other songs, most famously "The Garden where the Praties Grow."
The Tangaloor Set
The Tangaloor Slide (a Chad original) paired with a tune he got from his grandfather for which we don't have a name. (The latter is also the tune to "Drumdelgie," a bothy ballad you may hear if you give Shawn too much Guinness.)
The Game of Cards
Sometimes a card game is just a card game. Sometimes. "If ye didnae ken what it meant ye widnae be embarrassed."