"Brochan Lom" is a Scottish Gaelic nonsense song about porridge.
The tune is popular and appears frequently at Scottish country dances and ceilidhs.
It falls into the category of "mouth music" (Puirt a beul), used to create music for dancing in the absence of instruments.
It is a strathspey song and is commonly sung or played for the Highland Schottische (a popular ceilidh dance),[1] and for the Highland Fling.
[2] The words vary in different traditions but a common variant is: "This above was a jocular song that arose about some ill-made porridge, which being very thin was declared to be like gruel, or even 'sowans' (the fermented juice of oatmeal husks boiled, in bygone times a favourite article of food in Scotland.