This is taken from a rare wax cylinder recording of Paul's great-grandfather, Henrik Moth, recorded in 1920 in Sop's Bowl.
From the Furlong Anthology of Ballads and Recitations
Complete audio version
Real Audio
MOTH GENEOLOGY
H O M E
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The Crofter's Rebellion of 1742
“This one tells the story of my Great Great Grandfather, Jan Pietr Moth, who put down the Crofter's Rebellion of 1742.
The harvest moon hung red as a pudding when crofters did meet to rebel
In a glen near Colodden they sharpened their pikes crying "Send all the English to Hell",
"No need for alarum", King George he declared, "No reason to leave our soft beds,
For Jan Peter of Ucker is my man in the north. He'll chop off the Scot bastards heads",
The crofters lay sleeping, maids at their side and dreamed of revenge for the takin',
When Jan Pietr Moth rode out of the night with 500 horsemen of Satan,
They smote and they sliced and they gutted the Scots, while Moth fell on Cameron their leader,
Whose head he lopped off and held up with glee, shouting "Boy's look, this one's a bleeder!"
Cameron's head was stuck high aloft on a pike, and still twitchin' his lips they did pucker,
As with one final gasp, he was heard to exclaim: "A curse upon you Moth of Ucker!"
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