{"id":7496,"date":"2014-03-02T20:53:59","date_gmt":"2014-03-02T20:53:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.widmann.org.uk\/?p=7496"},"modified":"2014-03-02T20:53:59","modified_gmt":"2014-03-02T20:53:59","slug":"i-am-a-man-and-im-wearing-a-hat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/i-am-a-man-and-im-wearing-a-hat\/","title":{"rendered":"I am a man and I&#039;m wearing a hat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My old friend Kakha from Georgia was visiting us last week, and at one point I asked him whether Rabbie Burns was well-kent in Georgia.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Absolutely, we love the song about the man and his hat,&#8221; replied Kakha.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The man and his hat?!?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yes, you know: \u10d9\u10d0\u10ea\u10d8 \u10d5\u10d0\u10e0 \u10d3\u10d0 \u10e5\u10e3\u10d3\u10d8 \u10db\u10ee\u10e3\u10e0\u10d0\u10d5\u10e1 (&#8216;I am a man and I&#8217;m wearing a hat&#8217;),&#8221; said Kakha.  He started to sing: &#8220;\u10d9\u10d0\u10ea\u10d8 \u10d5\u10d0\u10e0 \u10d3\u10d0 \u10e5\u10e3\u10d3\u10d8 \u10db\u10ee\u10e3\u10e0\u10d0\u10d5\u10e1 \/\/\u10e5\u10d4\u10d3\u10e1 \u10d0\u10e0 \u10d5\u10e3\u10ee\u10e0\u10d8 \u10d0\u10e0\u10d0\u10d5\u10d8\u10e1. \/\/ \u10d0\u10e0\u10ea \u10d0\u10e0\u10d0\u10d5\u10d8\u10e1 \u10d5\u10d4\u10db\u10dd\u10dc\u10d4\u10d1\u10d8 \/\/\u10d0\u10e0\u10ea \u10d5\u10d1\u10d0\u10e2\u10dd\u10dc\u10dd\u10d1 \u10d0\u10e0\u10d0\u10d5\u10d8\u10e1.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I managed to find a YouTube clip of Georgians singing this:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"388\" height=\"291\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4kE3SS5zV5s\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>At first I couldn&#8217;t find any poem by Burns that matched the lyrics, but the line &#8220;\u10d0\u10e0\u10ea \u10d5\u10d1\u10d0\u10e2\u10dd\u10dc\u10dd\u10d1 \u10d0\u10e0\u10d0\u10d5\u10d8\u10e1&#8221; (&#8220;and I don&#8217;t rule over nobody&#8221;) gave me a clue.  It must be &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertburns.org\/works\/224.shtml\">I hae a wife o&#8217; my ain<\/a>&#8220;:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<pre style=\"font-family: 'Brawler', georgia, times, serif;\">\nI Hae a wife of my ain,\nI\u2019ll partake wi\u2019 naebody;\nI\u2019ll take Cuckold frae nane,\nI\u2019ll gie Cuckold to naebody.\n\nI hae a penny to spend,\nThere \u2014 thanks to naebody!\nI hae naething to lend,\nI'll borrow frae naebody.\n\nI am naebody\u2019s lord,\nI\u2019ll be slave to naebody;\nI hae a gude braid sword,\nI\u2019ll tak dunts frae naebody.\n\nI\u2019ll be merry and free,\nI\u2019ll be sad for naebody;\nNaebody cares for me,\nI care for naebody.\n<\/pre>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"388\" height=\"218\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eJslGpqagzA\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Georgians love this song &#8212; they feel it describes them.  It&#8217;ll never cease to amaze me how Burns was able to write songs that reach out to people from all countries at all times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My old friend Kakha from Georgia was visiting us last week, and at one point I asked him whether Rabbie Burns was well-kent in Georgia. &#8220;Absolutely, we love the song about the man and his hat,&#8221; replied Kakha. &#8220;The man and his hat?!?&#8221; &#8220;Yes, you know: \u10d9\u10d0\u10ea\u10d8 \u10d5\u10d0\u10e0 \u10d3\u10d0 \u10e5\u10e3\u10d3\u10d8 \u10db\u10ee\u10e3\u10e0\u10d0\u10d5\u10e1 (&#8216;I am a man and I&#8217;m wearing a hat&#8217;),&#8221; said Kakha. He started to sing: &#8220;\u10d9\u10d0\u10ea\u10d8 \u10d5\u10d0\u10e0 \u10d3\u10d0 \u10e5\u10e3\u10d3\u10d8 \u10db\u10ee\u10e3\u10e0\u10d0\u10d5\u10e1 \/\/\u10e5\u10d4\u10d3\u10e1 \u10d0\u10e0 \u10d5\u10e3\u10ee\u10e0\u10d8 \u10d0\u10e0\u10d0\u10d5\u10d8\u10e1. \/\/ \u10d0\u10e0\u10ea \u10d0\u10e0\u10d0\u10d5\u10d8\u10e1 \u10d5\u10d4\u10db\u10dd\u10dc\u10d4\u10d1\u10d8 \/\/\u10d0\u10e0\u10ea \u10d5\u10d1\u10d0\u10e2\u10dd\u10dc\u10dd\u10d1 \u10d0\u10e0\u10d0\u10d5\u10d8\u10e1.&#8221; I managed to find a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[94,159,166,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-en","category-ka","category-sco"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7496\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}