BRAEMAR PRIMARY P 5-7 SANGS
Bear Thrills
(The time when he went a bit silly)
Tune : Wha Saw The 42nd?
Wha saw Bear Grylls, wha saw him killin snakes
Who saw Bear Grylls, swimmin in a nuclear lake
Met a piranha in pyjamas, met a unicorn bakin cake
Met a whale eatin snails, met a squid wi a gowden rake
He got ambushed by a gang, pumas, tigers, jaguars
He was rescued by a rhino in a reid an frichtfu car
Bonny Braemar
Tune : Bonny Dundee
Bonny, oh bonny, oh bonny Braemar
It’s nae very near, it’s nae sae far
Bonny, oh bonny, oh bonny Braemar
There’s naewhere finer than bonny Braemar
It’s nae very sunny, it’s nae very dry
It’s sometimes still snawin when morning is nigh
Sometimes it’s sae bad it floods aa the streets
Thrawin snowballs until somebody greets
In winter it’s snawy, the snaw owls come oot
They sing twit toowoo, and fly all aboot
Up tae the top of the white crispy hills
Just tae say hi to oor medic called Bill
Chorus
We hae four churches, aa filled wi joy
Lots o buildins, but no enough toys
Braemar is filled wi history
An mony a strange auld mystery
They say there’s a baby was killed in Braemar
Thrown oot a windae when his parents roamed far
Frae Braemar Castle, oh what a fright
You still hear the baby wailin at night
The folks are aa friendly if you need a hand
Or saving up money tae go tae Thailand
The shops have got all you want, including tea
Or you might need a razor to cut your goatee
Chorus
Our Sweet Braemar
Tune: Laird O Cockpen
Aa by ourselves in our sweet Braemar
Far far away frae busy street cars
We could go to Ballater, but better by far
To be aa by ourselves in our sweet Braemar
The Coop is tidy, it’s no very big
But there’s more than enough tae eat like a pig
Or eat like a rabbit on salad and grass
An drink Co-op cola, oot o yer glass
Our big Highland Games, what can we say?
Runnin and dancing an marchin aa day
Tossin the caber and throwin the ball
Stages an tents, an lots of food stalls
The Queen comes to Braemar, every year
But some people come here, just to drink beer
The weather is real nice, though it rains all year
But there are smiles only, there is no fear
Birch trees an oak trees an bonny Scots pine
Makin the forest, they grow in a line
Some of their leaves float away in the stream
But the pines tree has needles so it can stay green
Braemar's Michty Spate
Tune : Johnny Lad
The day afore New Year's Eve, a flood cam frae the sky
Melted aa the shiverin snow, rushed doon frae on high
Cam like a volcano, eruptit like a rainbow
The village o Braemar almost devoured bi rain an snow
The Dee wis deep, the Cluny wis high, black cloods hid the stars
The waters crashed an foamed an flashed an thundered in Braemar
It's lucky that nae-wan wis killt, thon terrible frichtfu day
The river swooped so much, it took the path an bridge away
Abergeldie Castle wis broadcast on T.V.
Caravans went bowlin in an floatit tae the sea
The power masts got pulled away, the lichts aa went tae sleep
The stoves went oot, ye couldny cook a tattie or a neep
They cleared the debris frae the fields, kids hand-delivered mail
People pulled taegithir, an got oot their mops an pails
Cam like a volcano, eruptit like a rainbow
The village o Braemar almost devoured bi rain an snow
Cam like a volcano, eruptit like a rainbow
The village o Braemar almost devoured bi rain an snow
We could not include in our song all the great information and ideas that P5-7 came up with.
Here are some.
The bridge going out of Braemar was shut. People had to park in a field and walk round.
A pothole window high up in a building got smashed by the height of the water.
No power made a midden. No wifi.
Some people helped move the animals. The farmer's sheep got washed away.
All the plain was flooded, froth and boil and churning.
People had to be evacuated. 'It ruined my birthday'.
'I remember we were trying to drive to Somerset.'
AFF TAE SEA WE GO
Written by Ewan McVicar for P5-7
Tune: Ho Ro Donald
Robert Louis Stevenson
Cam tae Braemar wan fine day
Stayed in Miss McGregor's cottage
Aff tae sea we go
Made a treasure island map
Marked whaur the gold wis hid
Then began tae write his buik
Aff tae sea we go
Got some help frae his faither
Chose John Silver for a pirate
The Invercauld for the spoooky auld inn
Aff tae sea we go
Lift the anchor, hoist the mainsail
Aff we go tae hunt for treasure
Yo ho ho an a bottle o cola
Aff tae sea we go
R L Stevenson and his family holidayed in Braemar for three months in 1881. His 12 year old stepson Lloyd decorated the cottage with his own paintings. One day RLS decided to join in. He wrote later, 'I made the map of an island. It was elaborately, and, I thought, beautifully coloured. I ticketed my performance Treasure Island.” RSL wrote the first chapters in Braemar, then got stuck, but his father helped him work out the rest of the story.The Invercauld Arms is now rather grand, but in 1881 it was a 'simple country inn' and perhaps the model for the Admiral Benbow of RSL's story, and John Silver was a Braemar miller in 1881.
Our tune is O Ro Se, a Gaelic song about Bonny Prince Charlie that Andy Stewart borrowed for Donald Where's Yer Troosers.
Wha Saw The 42nd is a very old song about Scottish soldiers from the 42nd Highland Regiment marching to go aboard a ship that will take them to serve overseas.
The old song Bonny Dundee used to have a different tune, then this one was borrowed. The tune is also used for one called Queen Mary Queen Mary. This song used to have fourteen long verses, but children made it into two short verses. Hear it at https://tinyurl.com/zm29cuq
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The song The Laird O Cockpen is about a proud lord who goes courting a girl, and is astonished when she will not marry him.
The song Johnny Lad is a bouncy funny Glasgow children's song. We have slowed it down and made it sound dramatic.
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The Gaelic song with this tune was about Bonny Prince Charlie. Scottish singer Andy Stewart borrowed the tune for his own song Donald Where's Yer Troosers?