Pupils from Primary 4 to 6 have been busy learning Doric poems. Doric is the dialect spoken by people in the North East of Scotland.
Each year pupils in the school learn a Doric poem off by heart. The best three poems from each class will perform their poems at assembly and some winners will go to Balhousie Care Home and perform their poem to the residents there.
Here is one of the Doric Poems the P5 pupils are learning;
Frankenstein’s Lullaby by: Blackhall, Sheena
I pu ma duvet roon ma neb,
Ma chin, kyte, hurdies, happin,
In case the croc aneth the bed,
Sud slidder oot an bite ma Ted,
Wi nesty teeth snip aff ma taes,
( I’m sure he hisna ett fur days)
I hear his gnashers snappin!
I draa ma duvet ower ma snoot,
Fur at the windae, glowerin,
A bogle stauns in ghaistie cloots,
As fae a tree a hoolet hoots.
Coont Dracula wi dreepin fangs,
Flees by, wi bats an vampire gangs
Whylst in ma bed I’m cooerin.
I pu ma pilla ower ma lug,
Fur doon the stairs I’m hearin,
The knap an knell, the chooch an chug,
As Frankenstein gaes ower the rug,
Wi chynes that makk an eildrich din,
He’s waltzin wi a skeleton
Tae frichten me frae sleepin!
More Doric Poems can be found on Elphinstone Kist
