English
Go to Sleep My Baby (Lullaby)
Knock at the Door, Peep In (Rhyme)
O Can Ye Sew Cushions (Lullaby) 
The Coachman Sits Here (Finger Play)
The Skye Boat Song (Traditional Song)
Who's That Up the Chimney (Christmas Song) 
MP3 Midi
MP3 Midi Zeenty Teenty (Counting-out Rhyme)
Zickety, Dickety, Dock (Nursery Rhyme)
Scots
English
Address to a Haggis (Poem) MP3
Ali Bali MP3 Midi
MP3 Midi Ali Bali Midi
Midi A Tickling Game (Finger Play)
Hush-a-bye, My Little Thing (Lullaby)
The Lovely Banks of Lake Lomond (Traditional Song)
You Take the High Road and I'll take the Low Road (Traditional Song)
Clap, Clap Handsies (Nursery Rhyme)
Just Like Me (Nursery Rhyme)
Everywhere We Go MP3
Feetikin, Feetikin (Nursery Rhyme)
Hush-a-bye, Baby, Lie Still, Lie Still (Lullaby)
Hush-a-bye, Birdie, Croon, Croon (Lullaby)
Into, Tinty, Tamerary, Ram, Cap, Toosh (Nursery Rhyme)
John Smith, Fellow Fine (Nursery Rhyme)
Nievie, Nievie, Nicknack (Nursery Rhyme)
O Bessie Bell and Mary Gray (Ballad)
Scottish Gaelic
English
Baa, Baa, Black Sheep (Nursery Rhyme Song) Midi
Midi Look at the Snow MP3
MP3 William Thumb (Finger Play) MP3
Little Red Lark (Lullaby) Midi
Midi 
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- - this song has sheet music
- Midi - this song has a Midi tune
- MP3 - this song has an MP3 recording
- - this song has a Video recording
Click Here for bibliography of Scottish selections.
Many thanks to Ernestine Shargool for contributing much of the material on this page. Ernestine is a professional translator with an Anglo-Italian background and a lifelong interest in children's rhymes and folk tales from Italy, England and Scotland. She has translated many traditional nursery rhymes from English into Italian.
Many thanks also to the Montgomerie Estate for graciously allowing me to use the Montgomerie versions of the Scottish nursery rhymes.
Here are some of Mama Lisa's recent posts about the music, culture and traditions of Scotland:
I found this article about wedding superstitions in a very unlikely place: an American journal from 1906 called, Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers. It was written by Memphis Scimiter? Wedding Superstitions The old rhyme that had to do with the days of the week still holds considerable power in the choice of the wedding day in some... Read more »
Rhiannon Daymond-King sent me a counting-out rhyme called ?Zinty Tinty? with this note: ?I was taught a counting rhyme by my father, who said it came from his mother. Her mother was Swedish, so he thought it was in Swedish (or possibly Norwegian given that the part of the country she was from used to be... Read more »- Wendy wrote about a cool Scottish rhyme. It’s a type of rhyme called a counting-out rhyme. Counting-out rhymes are used to choose in games… generally you count-out players who leave the game. Whoever’s left at the end is "It". Here’s what Wendy wrote: My grandfather was from Scotland and taught my brother and I this counting... Read more »
- Donna wrote to me asking for help with a song: Hi Mama Lisa ….my Grandmother used to sing a song to my Mother when she was a child and we can’t find the correct words or melody to it. I was wondering if you or anyone you know might know it. My ancestors are from Scotland... Read more »
- Jane Miller wrote to me from a library in Canada asking for help with a song. Here’s her email: Dear Lisa We have had an inquiry on the following folk song. Our inquirer’s mother sang it to him in the 1930’s. She emigrated to Canada from Scotland aged 10, so he thinks the song could be... Read more »
Who’s That Up the Chimney? is a Christmas song written by Scottish singer Ewan McVicar. Ewan sent this song to us when we asked him if he knew of any Christmas songs from Scotland. Here’s what he wrote: I was on a tram in the Urals city of Perm (Russia), and the teacher conveying me said... Read more »
A Visit from Saint Nicholas is a classic poem that has been read for nearly two centuries at Christmastime. You may know it as It Was the Night Before Christmas or Twas the Night Before Christmas by Clement Clarke Moore. It’s believed to have been first published in 1823. Below you can hear 3 different recordings... Read more »
The original meaning of Jack-o’-Lantern was night watchman. "Jack" was a term for any guy or fellow. A night watchman was a guy who would walk around carrying a lantern making sure all was safe. He was a Jack with a lantern. They were also called "Jack-a-lantern" and "Jack-with-the-Lantern". The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) has the... Read more »
Old Abram Brown is an old nursery rhyme. In some versions, he’s called Old Grimes. Some people sing this rhyme as a song for Halloween. Here are the lyrics and a YouTube video… Old Abram Brown is Dead and Gone Old Abram Brown is dead and gone, You’ll never see him more;... Read more »- Alysa emailed me asking for help with some Scottish nursery rhymes and songs. The ones I could help her with I posted on the Mama Lisa’s World Scottish Song pages. The rest I will post below after Alysa’s letter. Here’s what Alysa wrote: Hey there. My nanna passed away a couple of years ago... Read more »
RELATED LINKS
Fiona J Mackenzie
(In Scottish Gaelic/English)
Fiona Mckenzie's Site - Fiona is a Gaelic singer.
Gaelic and Scots Language
(In English)
A site dedicated to links of the Gaelic and Scots languages
Scottish Songs
(In English)
A collection of around 200 Scottish songs that have either been written by Scots or about Scotland.
The Flying Haggis Guide to Scotland
(In English)
