Who is David Rorie

David Rorie, DSO, MDCM, DPH (1867 – 18 February 1946) was a doctor, folklorist and poet writing in his native language, Scots. As a poet he is known chiefly for his authorship of the well-known song, 'The Lum Hat wantin' the Croon', (sung in Ladysmith during the siege, and widely amongst Scots troops in the Great War) and a volume of collected poems which appeared under that title in 1935.Educated at Aberdeen and Edinburgh Universities, where he gained an MD in 1908, he was for some years joint Editor of the Caledonian Medical Journal, contributing numerous articles to that journal as well as to the Edinburgh Medical Journal and the British Medical Journal, and becoming a well-known authority on matters of public health in Scotland.

As an enthusiastic collector and editor of Sc...
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David Rorie Poems

• The Wee Drap
  He's a muckle man, Sandy, he's mair nor sax fit
  A size that's no' handy for wark i' the pit,
  But frae a' bad mis-chanters he'd aye keepit free
  Excep'in' that nicht he'd a fire in his e'e....
• The Trickster
  'Twas the turn o' the nicht when a' was quate
  An' niver a licht to see,
  That Death cam' stappin' the clachan through
  As the kirk knock chappit three....
• The Speeshalist
  Saturday Night.
  
  Noo, ye'll no' tak' it ill o' me, Mistress Macqueen,
  For ye ken ye are juist a young kimmer,...
• The Pawky Duke
  [It is hoped that all Scottish characteristics known to the
  Southron are here: pawkiness and pride of race; love of the
  dram; redness of hair; eldership of, and objection to
  instrumental music in the Kirk; hatred of the Sassenach;...
• The Nicht That The Bairnie Cam' Hame
  I was gaun to my supper richt hungert an' tired,
  A' day I'd been hard at the pleugh;
  The snaw wi' the dark'nin' was fast dingin' on,
  An' the win' had a coorse kin' o' sough....

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Comments about David Rorie

• Illandancient: finally! a practical use for my scots rhyming corpus 1790 joanna baillie rhymed "bonny" with "johnny" 1814 charles gray "bonnie" - "cronie" 1869 carolina oliphant "bonny" - "ony" 1920 david rorie "bonnie" - "cockernony" 1934 jm caie "bonnie" - "ony" 1/
• Nerdist: plants can now wield machetes. thanks, science
• Emsdurham: please join us in congratulating emt karla rorie for successfully completing the ftep process. she is now cleared for independent practice within the durham county ems system.
• Hheroines: jessica jones by david mack
• Timelesssports_: (1998) shaq doing this to david robinson is really crazy.

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