Old Scots Language..want to know more about it!..?

The Celtic Connections CD this year (as always) has some priceless golden nuggets. This year's golden ones are (in my humble opinion) the two Scottish inspired ones: Steel the Show - featuring Karine Polwart, "Heave ya Ho" and the other one that just sounds funky and great is Daimh "He'm eille's na ho ro", the latter one's sung in Gaelic of course which most of us don't now speak. However both titles have the word "ho" in it. So someone out there must be able to tell me - what this word means - is it to do with the rope perhaps that let's a fishing boat weigh-anchor and sail off? I'm just trying to guess. I'd love to know more about alot of old Scottish expressions, particularly really, old folk songs. So..it's old folk songs I'm really interested in here, just to be pointed in a good direction with regard to where to find such songs and their meanings (versions in the English language - just like the Karine Polwart one above) so that I can understand what's being sung. The other tricky bit is - I'd like to know the melodies, I don't read music and so it'd be good if I could hear sung versions of these from some source.Old Scots Language..want to know more about it!..?
I dont think its anything to do with boats - I dont know what it DOES mean :o) but its in too many songs that dont have anything to do with boats/ropes to mean that.

Try here for some old folk songs - the meanings of the more obscure words are below the lyrics, they are written in old Scots tho - not gaelic - and try putting the name of a song you want to listen to into youtube.



http://www.rampantscotland.com/songs/bls鈥?/a>Old Scots Language..want to know more about it!..?
Isn't it just from the sailor's cry "heave-ho", which is to do with heaving the rope?



Ho in old Scots itself means halt, stop and such.