Fu An Skailin (Running Over)

Supplied by: Mark and Graeme Thompson - we learned this at Carrowdore Mission Hall Sunday School in the 1970s. Taught to us by Rhoda Wilson (our great Aunt). She had learned this from Charlie Maine, one of the many Scots evangelists who preached in the Ards Peninsula in the early 20th century
Copyright: may have been written by Seth Sykes.
Tune: Running Over
Date: unknown

Recorded by the Low Country Boys on the 2005 cd "Gran Time Comin".

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Fu an skailin, fu an skailin,
Ma wee bicker’s fu an skailin,
Since the Lord saved me,
A’m as blythesome as cud be,
Ma wee bicker’s fu an skailin.

(The English version is "Running Over, Running Over, My Cup's Full and Running Over")

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VERSION TWO:
Just before Christmas 2005, we played at Strean Presbyterian in Newtownards. A man who was there that night, called Alec Steele, originally from Scotland, told us he had learned this as a boy at Sunday School in Glasgow, with this variation:

Fu an skailin, fu an skailin,
Ma wee bicker’s fu an skailin,
Since the Lord saved me,
A’m as blythe as blythe cud be,
Ma wee bicker’s fu an skailin.

(Alec's brother Gordon is listed in the Thanks section on the left of this page.)

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VERSION THREE:
Given to at the Faith Mission Centre in Ballymena, after we played there during 2006:

Fu’ an’ skailin’, fu’ an skailin’
Ma bicker’s brim an fu’ and skailin’
Syne the Lord saved me,
A’m as blythe as blythe can be
Ma bicker’s brim an’ fu’ and skailin.