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Tamosher

from Shapeshifter by Tempest

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1. Tamosher (Trad.)
“I first became interested in this song when I saw Alan Reid of the Battlefield Band perform it at the Cambridge Folk Festival in the ‘70s. We wrote some new musical parts and hipped it up. It’s a catchy Celtic folk song that lent itself to a rock and roll treatment well. As for what a Tamosher is, let’s just say it’s what a Scotsman keeps under his kilt.”

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There were two bonnie lassies
And they were dressed in wool
And they went out some rushes for to pull
And one of them caught a wee thing
Before she did return
And she bundled it and put it in her apron

Oh the first man that she met
Was her father on the stairs
Daughter, dear daughter what have you got there
Who gave to you the tamosher
To wear the starched gown
And you bundled it and put it in your apron

Oh was it to the baker
Or was it to the clown
Or was it to the bonnie boy that sails the world around
Who gave to you the tamosher
To wear the starched gown
And you bundled it and put it in your apron

It wasn't to the baker
It wasn't to the clown
It was to the bonnie boy that sails the world around
He gave to me the tamosher
To wear the starched gown
And I bundled it and put in my apron

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from Shapeshifter, released May 20, 2003

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