Oh, me Auntie Mary had a canary,
Up the leg of her drawers;
When she was sleeping, I was peeping,
Up the leg of her drawers.
Oh, me Auntie Mary had a canary,
Up the leg of her drawers;
When she was sleeping, I was peeping,
Up the leg of her drawers.
####.... Traditional Scottish bagpipe jig, march and dance tune named after Alexander Gordon [1743-1827], 4th Duke of Gordon, Knight of the Thistle, who in 1794 raised the Gordon Highlanders, the 92nd Regiment. Cock O' The North was the traditional epithet attached to the chief of the Gordon Clan ....####
This variant was arranged and recorded live by Ryan's Fancy at The Black Knight Lounge in Halifax, Nova Scotia by Jack Hutchinson and George Taylor (An Irish Night At The Black Knight Lounge, trk#4, 1971, Marathon Music Incorporated, Scarborough, Ontario) and is featured in the YouTube video above.
The YouTube video below features a variant performed as Auntie Mary by Great Big Sea during Ottawa's 1997 Canada Day Celebration.
Auntie Mary had a canary up the leg of her drawers,
Auntie Mary had a canary up the leg of her drawers;
When she was sleeping I went creeping up the leg of her drawers,
When she was sleeping I went creeping up the leg of her drawers.
Auntie Mary had a canary up the leg of her drawers,
Auntie Mary had a canary up the leg of her drawers;
When she was sleeping I went creeping up the leg of her drawers,
When she was sleeping I went creeping up the leg of her drawers.
