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Da Cat Song

Song type: Active, Face to face
Language: Scots
Age group: 0-2, 3-5
Audience: Children, Pre-birth, Pre-school, Toddler

How to use this song with babies

A great bouncy song for babies – sit your little one on your lap facing you! Try some simple actions for the animals – a little squeak for the peerie moose or woof for the muckle dug!

How to use this song with toddlers

This makes a great action song for toddlers – encourage them to clap their hands for the 'clatter' or flick their fingers for the cat splashing in the 'barrell o waater'! Don’t forget animal noises for the cat, muckle dug and peerie moose!

How to use this song with 3 to 5-year olds

Pre-schoolers will enjoy the actions and animal noises just as much as toddlers. They might even want to get down on the floor like the cat led on the rug, stretch tall to be muckle and crouch to be peerie.

Da Cat Song lyrics

Dir wance wis a cat an shö led on a rug

Shö wis terrible faert fur da great muckle dug

Shö roared an shö roared as shö clamb tae da rūf

Shö yaldered dat lood at shö geed hersel a gluff

Dan shö fell intae a barrel o waater

Right tae da tap o her lugs

Whit nixt is goin ta come at 'ir?

An aa becis o yun muckle dug

Dir wance wis a cat wi a face black as col

Shö chaested a moose an güd in a hol

Shö couldna win eft and she couldna win fore

Shö yaldered dat lood dat her trot wis getting sore

Dan oot shö popped wi a clatter

An fell tae da floor wi a doos

Whit nixt is gointa come at ir?

An aa becis o yun peerie moose

© Freda Leask and Cameron Johnston

Funded by Scottish Government's Gaelic and Scots Learning Directorate