The Orange and the Blue
Contributors
Fieldworkers
Date
April 1952
Track ID
15024
Part 1
Track Information
Original Track ID
SA1952.02.B6
Original Tape ID
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
Genre
Collection
Source Type
Reel to reel
Audio Quality
Good