A youth goes to the cinema and pulls at a thread of the woven woollen vest of the girl in front of him. He can’t stop himself and, by the time the film ends, the vest has completely unravelled. The girl never discovers what happened to it and the youth vows never to pull a thread again.
Note: This verse was performed by Andy Stewart on “The White Heather Club” on BBC Scotland on 14 June 1960.
It also appeared on the EMI LP “The Best of the Cornkisters”, recited by Robbie Shepherd, in 1974. You can download this track below and hear the verse recited by a native Doric speaker. Note: this is copyright material but you may listen to the track for personal use or study but commercial use is expressly not authorised.