Tam O'Shanter by Robert Burns

For Halloween, the classic poem Tam O'Shanter by Robert Burns.

It's in old Scot's dialect. You can read it, and a plain-English translation here

http://www.robertburns.org.uk/Assets/Poems_Songs/tamoshanter.htm

Obviously, I did not recite this from memory. Maybe one day.

Some of the cadences and pronunciations are wide of the mark.

I did this for my own amusement. There are videos of far superior recitals on YouTube, like these....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fji73RH3wDs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EElNTTdL3Yk

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[Banana666]

Rated 5 rhyme reciting skeletal Scotsmen

[Otokogoroshi]

Witches are sexy. Don't fear them! But welcome them into your bed.

[dynimitekid]

Really enjoyed this man, thanks!

[baljit4281]

Wow you actually changed the words to an absolutely classic piece of poetry. If you must recite do it correctly. Pffft

[ezteliita]

hey guys im a mexican girl hehe! And i heard this poem because of my friend edward leonard lochrie, he is from paisley and well i havent known a thing about him for a while, so if theres someone from paisley here please help me! Im begging you! Please contact me! Im about to send a letter from mex to scotland! So anybody helppp!!! :(

[Ramstamrab]

A braw recital. Guid tae hear it ither nor juist read bi masel.

Millie5426. You could try Newsnet Scotland for Articles in Scots and Scottish Gaelic.

Or BBC Alba for Gaelic TV which i Think you can find online.

[kgriffith42]

Ahh, maybe I'm just silly American girl but nothing is sexier than a Scottish accent. ;)

Anyway, that was my first time hearing this poem and it was awesome. Now I won't be able to accept any other spoken version of it.

[Brouhaha18]

loved it ^__^

[Pankoek1990]

fuckin sexy that scotsh accent ;)

[nacho1560]

Superb, son, well done, was in stitches listening to it. Sometimes reading a poem you miss the emphasis on certain words or that. Listening to you with a wee drink on me I could just imagine Rabbie, maybe with a wee drink on him, writing this. The funny bits I can just see a fellow drunk and empathise.

[TheBENGALHANNIBAL]

FORGET FAKE SHAKESPEARE. Robert Burns is the REAL DEAL.

[billyconnearly]

Well Done Mark -ye miss'd the fuck'n point aw the gither!!