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Scottish nursery rhyme help please!

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tshirthunter · 01/09/2023 15:00

So my menopausal brain has forgotten my favourite nursery rhyme. I've sung it to my kids for years but now all I can remember is the last line. I've tried google quickly but thought this maybe more fun!

So it ends

Daddies away twa Hamilton (this may be wrong) to get the Bairn a bell!

My mum taught me it but she's no longer here to ask Sad

Thanks

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AlwaysTheBabysitter · 01/09/2023 15:04

Hope the image attaches but a quick Google found this?

Scottish nursery rhyme help please!
Aaron95 · 01/09/2023 15:07

No idea. The only thing Google suggests is this.

Ringa ringa roses, cuppie, cuppie shell,
The dog's awa' to Hamilton, to buy a new bell;
If you don't tak' it, I'll tak' it to mysel',
Roun', roun' rosie, cuppie, cuppie shell.
https://blantyreproject.com/2017/06/blantyre-children-rhymes-part-1-of-3/

  Looking back to simpler times in the children’s playground, Blantyre children, like many in Scotland would play games with chalk marks in the pavement and playground. Games like hopscotch, f…

https://blantyreproject.com/2017/06/blantyre-children-rhymes-part-1-of-3

8misskitty8 · 01/09/2023 19:07

Clap a, clap a handies,
Mummies at the well.
Daddies gone to (insert local area/town ) to buy baby a bell.

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ratspeaker · 01/09/2023 19:49

8misskitty8 has it

there was also
clap a clap a handies
daddys comin hame
pennies in his pocket fir his ane wee wean

LaviniasBigBloomers · 01/09/2023 20:00

Clappa clappa handies
Mammie's at the well
Daddie's awa tae [local town but not the actual town you live in]
To buy wee [baby's name] a bell.

tuvamoodyson · 01/09/2023 20:02

ratspeaker · 01/09/2023 19:49

8misskitty8 has it

there was also
clap a clap a handies
daddys comin hame
pennies in his pocket fir his ane wee wean

…if she’s good
she’ll get them aw,
if she’s bad,
she’ll get nane at a’

tshirthunter · 02/09/2023 10:55

Yes that's it clap a clap a handies.!

Thank you so much it's been bugging me for ages that I can't remember and now I'm going to sing it all day!

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