16 - Rattlin' Bog

[Arkybark]

love the audience!



[SlyyKitten]

My mum used to sing this to me when I was young!!

[hoosierhiver]

Wasn't he in an old Star Trek episode?

[coolkayaker1]

The man with the perfect silver hair has a funny accent.

[dparker382]

God i miss smoke filled pubs and i dont even smoke lol it just adds to the atmosphere somehow.

[irishhelen100]

great song for Paddy's Day

[XsouthernXjusticeX]

I think he's missing some... the one i've always heard old men sing has a flea on a feather, feather on a bird, bird on the egg, egg on the nest, nest on the leaf, leaf on the twig, twig on the branch, branch on the limb, limb on the tree, tree in the bog, and the bog down in the valley-o

[songfreak32267]

@XsouthernXjusticeX and a nucleus in the protozoa and the protozoa in the flea and a flea on a feather....

[XsabrinaTaglientiX]

Amazing Song Ohhh Yeah :)

[FuzzyYellowBear]

I love this song, fun to play...I like to go further:

Bog, tree, limb, branch, twig, leaf, nest, egg and (on that egg there was a) bird, wing, feather, flea

Good song for getting people singing along

[hippyable]

@FuzzyYellowBear i like how it all adds up it's rather relaxing.

[HL2NoLie]

I'm guessing the bird wasn't born until a few years after this? "In the egg there was a bird, a rare bird, a rattlin bird."...

[thepanzerknacker]

That sounds class with a scottish accent actually!

[sdmac21]

this is the best song ever.

[MrAirynskene]

The are Scottish you fool!

[Tormentor1991]

Are they irish players?

[loppan109]

he is a good singer or i am wrong and the IRISH ROCKS HOORRAA FOR IRA

[popivazaiou]

BEAUTIFUL video!!!! Thank you !

[gavin53uc]

so we got:

bog

tree

limb

branch

twig

leaf

nest

egg!

Awesome!

[EuroBughouse]

it looks like he plays a flamenco cedar or cypress guitar?!

[DiegoElArbol]

Sal de ahi chivita chivita... any argentinian will understand my comment

[Jack43414]

um...how is a black eyed peas song listed under related videos? TO THIS SONG REALY?????!??!??!?!?!?!!??

[HerryBawsack]

I think it's because they both speed up, and have increasingly complex lyrics, as the song goes on. Also, 'cos The Corries are reprazentin' they 'hood.

[tooosha]

how is it not?

[Thompsonf1001]

@Jack43414 its because this is what the black eyed peas want to be able to pull off one day. . . . they wish ;) 

[Snadd1987]

@Jack43414 thats just a measure of how popular the corries are now-a-days.......lol

[cjvec]

i love the way he says the letter R!!

[muff1206]

ho ho the rrrrattlinn bogg :)

[BicycleFanatic89]

hahahaha ! I too !

[DiegoElArbol]

me too! almost the same comment by me on Ae Fond Kiss by the Corries

[thedruidsband]

good stuff

[michaelmcguire93]

I fell in a rattlin' bog on my duke of edinburgh a few weeks ago... it wasnt pleasant.

[LilDas187]

i love the duke its sick

[michaelmcguire93]

lol yeah it was actually quite funny after i fell in but at the time i was pissed off:L You doin gold or silver?

[craigowler]

it takes a Scotsman to enjoy falling into a rattlin` bog.....Lol

[goonerbeagunner4life]

My dad used to sing this to me as a lullaby. :')

[uggyoggy9]

wow gooner.....

Lol, you must've been up all night! ;)

[althaushexe]

Drummer, if you've just discovered the Corries listen to Leezzie (Lizzie) Lindsay on youtube. It's very beautiful.

[thelonegroover]

Superb!....love the Corries!

Brought back many happy memories of "Bunion" in the Bobbin Mill in Aberdeen in the 1970's

(Whatever happened to "Tartan Special" by the way (it's in the video)...great beer!

[althaushexe]

You must be American? This is a very well known song in Ireland, Scotland and England. I'm Australian and even I know it - sang it at school.

[VerusVita989]

S'not nice. I doubt every Australian knows this song. 0_o

[althaushexe]

Not trying to be "not nice". Just asking a question. I don't think "wht d fck is this" is nice. I suppose you are American as well? But don't get agitated - there are lots of well-educated Americans around. Afterall, there are about 300 million of them (when you includevthe illegals,) Please also note the use of the word "even".

[VerusVita989]

My pardons. I did not read the initial comment.

[drummerlead]

I'm American, and I know this song well too. We have a folk group here in the USA who sings this song as well...called Peter Paul and Mary. I just found out who these guys were just a couple days ago; a friend of mine who lives in Aberdeen told me about them. These guys remind me of PP & M and I loved their sound right away when starting to play these videos.

[althaushexe]

Hey Drummer, I know PP&M well but didn't know they sang this. They are utter perfection. I saw them in concert several times when I was a kid in Oz - back in the 60s :-). They were the BEST concerts I went to a Beatles concert but you couldn't hear anything because 99.9% of the audience was screaming. Cheers.

[MissLizaB]

love this song.. but there singing it toooooo slow!! roll on paddys day 2009!!! irish and proud i am!!

[2pac1971to1996rip]

yeah but they was old men at that time dont u think ronnie looks like kenny rogers with that grey beard lol

[pwincezz02]

Ummmmmm.............. well itzz interestin! :)

[LolBananaPhone]

That guys hair is amazing.

[doddiebeadle]

brilliant

[ILinquisitore]

Oh, I love this video!

When I am old, I want to be as happily singing songs as this old man is xD

[wonderwallmusic]

:O

Super Mario World!

[jamiereidit]

2:50 lol, brilliant !!!

[JoTheSnoop]

Haven't heard this song for a quite a while!

I remember listening to an Irish folk band on a few weekends in Sydney do this song, really gets the crowd going.

[john170892]

the vein in the flee and the fles on the feather and the feather on the wing and the wing on the bird,the bird in the egg,the egg in the nest,the nest on the leaf,the leaf on the twig,the twig on the branch,the branch on the limb,the limb on the tree,the tree in the whole,the whole in the bog,the bog down in the valleyooooo!!!!!!!!!!

[jonnyirishjudo]

its supposed to start in a hole!

[aidanandger]

go on it really gets you going yahooo

[kirstiehtidx]

i love this :D !

[aerildur]

Isn't this couple of great musicians stoping to surprise me with brilliatn theme after brilliant theme? XD

[AlexOfArdrossan]

So who else couldn't stop themselves singing along?

[Warlord1500]

ROFL

[xscoilphadraignaofax]

so cool

[xazykrazy1102]

i love this song haha

[dagriton123]

the range director at my boy scout camp did this song at the opening campfire, and i ran around camp at midnight singing it with some of my friends.

[CathalAnseo]

wat about da chick in the egg

[jobieloon]

feather on the chick, flea on the feather, gnat on the flea, parasite on the gnat, mould on the parasite, bacterium on the mould and finally the virus on the bacterium.

Sing it on the pipe band bus all the times we a re drunk!! BRILLIANT

[KittyStarlight]

I suspect strongly that the parasite, mold, bacterium and virus parts were invented by people who either were trying to be funny or just didn't want the song to end. ^_~ (Or possibly both. ^_~) It doesn't sound right to just end with the egg, though...EVERY version that I know of the song (or the chant or rhyme, since in some versions it's not always a song) goes *at least* as far as the bird and *usually* the feather (except this version of course! ^_~). =^__^=

[jobieloon]

Just not wanting to see how far we could keep the song going. Just for the banter

:)

[KittyStarlight]

To jobieloon: Exactly, that's what I meant. ^_~ (Sounds like a bunch of science students made it up, kind of. ^_~) (My mom knows a scientific-language version, long-words version, of "Three Blind Mice"... her brother, who studied science in college, learned the song in college and taught it to her. ^_^) ("A trio of sightless rodents... observe in what manner they locomote..." etc.) =^__~=

[jobieloon]

No science students. Just a bus full of pissed up Scottish pipe band folk havin a good time :)

[KittyStarlight]

To jobieloon: Well, that's just as good in a different way! ^_^

=^___^=

[KittyStarlight]

To CathalAnseo: I know, they didn't *really* finish it. Feather on the bird and bird in the egg and egg in the nest...etc. ^_^ To jobieloon: I'm not familiar with the parasite, mold, bacterium and virus parts. ^_~ I HAVE heard OF "gnat on the flea and flea on the feather", but not specifically sung as part of this song (there are lots and lots of versions..."on yonder hill there stands a tree" was probably the one I knew first ...and I read that in a book of old rhymes and such).

[jobieloon]

Like I say, we were just makin it up as went along so the song would last longer.

:)

[setagates]

Fabulous. Seldom have heard anything better or more stirring

[madamequatre]

I love this song!!

I found out about it this year, but it's not bad for being born and brought up in Spain:)

I know a lot o'verses to it, and love to sing it at the top of my lungs.

I didn't know the Corries before I saw that video, but I'm looking them up ASAP.

Slainte!

[Jallorn]

check out the dubliners

[ILUV74]

Ill have a pint of tatan special barman,coz quick while these two boys are playing its , plenty of room at the bar. heh heh.

[j3nny3lf]

Have loved this song since I was a girl and my mother gave me the Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem with Their Families album.

This version is superb!

[Spyderblade001]

My personal favorite version is by Seamus Kennedy. his lasts about 8-9 minutes.

[chalkie120]

this is a true version of Rattlin Bog instead of all the other versions!!

[Tatupuforyou]

How right you are..I use to love this song when I was a kid.The only version I've ever heard was the Irish Rovers..But these guys are great!!

[Snadd1987]

I LOVE THE CORRIES!!

[SaraCampbell0]

My parents use to sing this and I use to dance to it. Of course, they didn't sing as well as the Corries... Dance! Dance! Dance!

[airfixbuilder]

this is in my top 15-20 favourite songs