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Willie Long Leegs

Song type: Active, Tickling
Language: Scots
Age group: 0-2, 3-5
Audience: Children, Pre-birth, Pre-school, Toddler

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Song and rhyme words

Has du seen yun Willie-Long-leegs, spricklin' all ower da place?

Da only trouble is, gee whizz , ee's spricklin' all ower me fiss

Dis blisseet Willie-long-leegs, ee's doing da quid-a-reels

Birlin' in me hair an spangin' i da air

And jumpin' up apon me knees

But I am goin' ta catch dee

As du scrovils on da floor

An I am goin' ta flatch dee

Dan du'll be no more…….. (better no do dat)

Dis blisseet Willie-long-leegs

Am no faert fur dee

I hoop da peerie brute gets spaegie

Fur aa da grief dus gein ta me

Has du seen yun Willie-long-leegs, still birrin' roond an round?

His legs ir wuppit tagidder noo an ees maakin yun fuzzy sound

Dis blisseet Willie-long-leegs, still doin' da quid-a-reels

Birlin' in me hair an spangin' i da air

And jumpin' up apon me knees

But I am goin' ta catch dee

As do scrovils on da floor

An I am goin' ta flatch dee

Dan do'll be no more…….. (better no do dat)

Dis blisseet Willie-long-leegs

Am no faert fur dee

I hoop da peerie brute gets spaegie

Fur aa da grief dus gein ta me

I hoop da peerie brute gets spaegie

Fur aa da grief ees gein ta me

© Freda Leask

Funded by Scottish Government's Gaelic and Scots Learning Directorate