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Cock Up Your Beaver - Brass Band - LM010
Cock Up Your Beaver - Brass Band - LM010
COMPOSER : McLeod & Burns
ARRANGER : David Beal
A tongue in cheek arrangement and an audience foot-tapper.
A tune about taking off your hat based on a poem by Robbie Burns
Cock Up Your Beaver is a song and poem by Robert Burns, written in 1792. It is written in Scottish dialect and the beaver refers to a gentleman's hat in an era when all high quality men's hats were made of felted beaver fur.
When first my brave Johnnie lad came to this town,
He had a blue bonnet that wanted the crown,
But now he has gotten a hat and a feather
Hey, brave Johnnie lad, cock up your beaver!
Cock up your beaver, and cock it fu' sprush!
We'll over the border and gie them a brush:
There's somebody there we'll teach better behaviour
Hey, brave Johnnie lad, cock up your beaver!
ISMN - 9790570000104