[From Mannin #8,1916]
From the late Dr. Clague’s MS. collection
Songs of Occupation
Arrane y Vluggan (Wool-Winding Song)’ Sung by Thomas Kneen, Port St. Mary
Grinding Song—Yn Mwyllin, Mwyllin, O! (The Mill, Mill, O !)
. Sung by Joseph Crellin, Colby
1 Variants of ‘Lillibulero’ which was formerly ascribed to Purcell, but which has been traced to an Irish ‘Quickstep ‘ : the air is also known as an old Scotch spinning refrain, which proves no more than the early inter-communication of the Celts.
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