{"id":4020,"date":"2008-11-09T15:28:28","date_gmt":"2008-11-09T20:28:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/?p=4020"},"modified":"2008-11-09T15:28:28","modified_gmt":"2008-11-09T20:28:28","slug":"aagh-brainscrub-required","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/09\/aagh-brainscrub-required\/","title":{"rendered":"aagh! brainscrub required!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I was idly picking away on the mandolin sort of playing scales when this song from my childhood starts playing itself. It&#8217;s the Uist Tramping Song, and has ultra-cheesy lyrics:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Come along, come along, let us foot it out together,<br \/>\nCome along, come along, be it fair or stormy weather,<br \/>\nWith the hills of home before us and the purple of the heather,<br \/>\nLet us sing in happy chorus, come along, come along. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>No, really. I always thought that <em>footing it out<\/em> would involve a lot of squelching, this being Scotland. Must&#8217;ve learnt it when I was 8 or so; our headmaster was a teuchter, so my head is filled with Gaelic-ish things still. One of the pieces I recently heard Rhiannon Giddens perform with the Carolina Chocolate Drops, so they&#8217;re not all bad.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, to share the brainmelt, here it is in all its awfulness:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/wDD1KYn1x0c&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Plus the score, if you care to: <a href=\"http:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/uist_tramping_song.pdf\">Uist Tramping Song<\/a> [pdf].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I was idly picking away on the mandolin sort of playing scales when this song from my childhood starts playing itself. It&#8217;s the Uist Tramping Song, and has ultra-cheesy lyrics: Come along, come along, let us foot it out together, Come along, come along, be it fair or stormy weather, With the hills of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14,15],"tags":[53,1423,1425],"class_list":["post-4020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-choons","category-the-old-country","tag-aargh","tag-mandolin","tag-uist"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-12Q","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4020"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4022,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4020\/revisions\/4022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}