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On Grandpa's Knee

Song type: Actions, Active, Tickling
Language: Scots
Age group: 0-2, 3-5

How to use this song with babies

Cuddle with your baby, giving them a chance to follow your mouth shapes as you say this rhyme to the slow and steady beat.

How to use this song with toddlers

Enjoy bouncing your toddler on your knee – side to side and up and down. Play around with energy when they become the horse!

How to use this song with 3-5 year olds

Encourage your child to enjoy active play with this rhyme. They'll learn some great Scots words, too.

On Grandpa's Knee lyrics

Grandpa, Grandpa,

Diddle me on your knee.

I'm your diddley-dumplin

Swinging on a Swee.

Sing a bonnie ballant

O pownies black and broun,

Shoggle me frae side to side

Syne shoggle up and doun.

Grandpa's knee's a cannie naig

Jouglin owre the muir

And I'm a braw wee leddy ridin to the fair.

From Bairn Rhymes by J K Annand. Shared with permission from the Dictionaries of Scots Language.

Funded by Scottish Government's Gaelic and Scots Learning Directorate.