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This bawdy song uses the melody of the same name. Lasses gars your TailsToddle is the title of this song in the Skene manuscript of 1715.

This is the last song in a Scots dance set that Christine Kydd has put together,though each song stands on its own merrit as well as in this set and is great funto learn. The tune is a very popular on fiddle and accordion and a good goingreel.

Tail toddle tail toddle Tammy gars ma tail toddle

But an ben wi diddle doddle, Tammy gars ma tail toddle.

Oor guidwife held ower tae Fife for tae buy a coal riddle

Lang ere she cam back again, Tammy gars ma tail toddle.

Jessie Mack she gied a plaque, Helen Wallace gied a boddle

Quo the bride “It’s ower little for tae mend a broken doddle.”

Twain twain made the bed twain twain lay thegither

When the bed began tae heat the yin lae in abeen the tither.

When I’m deed ah’m oot o date when I’m seek ah’m fu o trouble

When I’m weel a stap aboot an’ Tammy gars ma tail toddle.

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Christine Kydd is “one of Scotland’s great singers”. Traditional singer Contemporary songwriter.

A renowned interpreter and champion of the Scots song tradition, Christine has performed and recorded, over a number of years, with other singers and musicians to produce some of Scotland’s finest and often award-winning harmony vocal sounds, including successful and groundbreaking projects with Janet Russell, and in supertrio, Chantan.

Originally from Glasgow, Christine grew up musically in the vibrant Edinburgh of the 1980’s where groups like The Easy Club, Jock Tamson’s Bairns, Sileas, The Poozies and Shooglenifty among others were forming. She was involved in many combinations of groups and bands at this time, but notably toured extensively with Janet Russell in the UK, Europe, the USA and Canada.

Christine later was invited to join the group which became Chantan- a successful blending of influences from a variety of sources including jazz and blues, treatments which received great acclaim.

Christine loves working with other singers and musicians, and has been invited to sing and play with a number of combinations, including current projects: the fantastic Calluna (Anna Wendy Stevenson, Rebecca Knorr, Charlotte Peterson); on a programme of “Songs and Tunes of the Sea” with the wonderful multi- instrumentalist Norman Chalmers; with the brilliant, original singer from Ceolbeg, Barbara Dymock, in an exciting new harmony duo, Sinsheen.

Christine performs and teaches in many contexts at home and abroad, including the National Centre for Excellence in Traditional Music, Plockton, Scotland. She has been involved as founder of many community choirs in Scotland, including Sangstream, Sangschule, Angus Folk, Breakish Singers and JustSinginBirnam.

She has appeared on TV in the UK, Europe, Russia and Japan and on radio at home and internationally. Concerts include numerous festivals,(including Celtic Connections, Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Towersey, Whitby, Sidmouth and Orkney) in the UK, Europe (including Northlands and Lorient), and festivals and tours in the USA, Canada and Russia.

Her latest solo album, ‘Dark Pearls’, received excellent reviews. Launched on the Culburnie label, the album features Lorraine Jordan as guest musician. Never one to stand still creatively, Christine is currently working on a project involving the songs she’s written over a number of years.

www.christinekydd.com/