Sheet Music

'Delightful and revealing things
A treasure trove of contour rings'
... and rhyming place names too

Sheet 1: Subterranean Haroldswick Gloup

Robert Irvine's stoura wick
Swankie housa haroldswick
Moorins queyon clibberswick
Honey pussi otterswick
Ladie swinga swarister
Hosta leera coppister
Kirk knowes little housetter
Rumblings unst the gunnister

Lamb ba horse haa
Sligatu of lanyar
Tiptoby tressaness
Trollakeldas hermaness

Man inner clapper ship
Markamouth, long trip
Greybearded grimister
Longariva swinister
Passage outer easter land
Skipta shorda fethaland
Breakon ground, uyea sound
Ripple ordaal waters round

Lamb ba horse haa
Sligatu of lanyar
Mossy hoo basta spoo
Ramnageo lanchestoo

Ship crook skurdie lee
Cashigarsh the rettuvie
Oddsetter lokati
Settlement of poverty
Robert haggle brim stack
Bagi quidin skitsack
Clett club park black
Blade inner caldback

Lamb ba horse haa
Sligatu of lanyar
Flodda fladda fetlar givv
Rigga tinga tonga niv

Gruting wife o haroldswick
Trolla hill of clibberswick
Black scarf, halligarth
Crying furra little calf
Head riven cliff heights
Loomer sandywater white
Stone ground, cave sound
Setter inner grave mound

Lamb ba horse haa
Sligatu of lanyar
Wirawil o wilna ho
Whallerie of hamnavoe

Sheet 2: Raa Laxo

Laxo, dudd duddin
Winnia whalsay groot tua
Laxo, dudd duddin
Winnia whalsay camb
Laxo, dudd duddin
Winnia whalsay stuack tua
Laxo, dudd duddin
Winnia whalsay camb

(c) Funzie Geos Tow Holligarth

Sheet 3: Fields of Green

Helligoblo ho
Whirly windy blo
Ay berrarunies boadie
Sandy voehead bay
Island shoreside swae
Longa cumle fields of green

Ura freester dore
Turning hillside cure
Fru grind oe homestead hurdi
Souther system grey
Smirlee northness brae
Galta girdi fields of green

Cunning fidlar fern
Gardie kneefill burn
Scarvister shumla shinni
Outrabister houll
Nesting roadside pool
Heska moora fields of green

Nature burgastoo
Brimness lungatou
Gorsendi shalder roonies
Smidda lochend fell
Bousta freedom yell
Many bodwell fields of green

(c) Stong

Sheet 90: Borrowscale Cycle

Wetherlam wharrels down loadpot low
Nethermost leeming in mirehouse row
Rainsborrow lonscale waterside fall
Corridor shelter in beckside hall...

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