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The Orange and the Blue

Date April 1952
Track ID 15024
Part 1

Track Information

Original Track ID

SA1952.02.B6

Original Tape ID

SA1952.002

Summary

At a fine wedding, a former lover appears and sings a song reproaching the bride for her faithlessness. The bride then asks the groom if she can spend her wedding night with her mother. He agrees and weeping she goes to bed. She is found dead in the morning. Her former lover says that he will wear orange and blue in memory of his faithless dead true love.

Willie Mathieson probably learnt this at the threshing.

Item Notes

Text and music transcribed in School of Scottish Studies. 10 verses. Cf. also 'The False Bride'.

See:
Greig-Duncan vol. 6, pp. 328-347
Willie Mathieson's MSS I:43

Language

Scots

Collection

SoSS

Classification

R567 GD1199 LP31

Source Type

Reel to reel

Audio Quality

Good