Twa and Twa

Twa and twa made the bed,
Twa and twa lay thegither
When the bed begun to heat
One got up abune the ither.

(Second section diddled: nonsense syllables)

From Travellers' Songs, MacColl & Seeger
Collected from Jeannie Thompson
note: "Scattered like exclamation points throughout the Scots traditional
repertoire are innumerable short pieces frequently set to pipe and fiddle
tunes, and often consisting of a single stanza. MacC & S
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