The Same Old Game
Contributors
Fieldworkers
Date
January 1952
Track ID
15748
Part 1
Track Information
Original Track ID
SA1952.05.B1 (B11)
Original Tape ID
Summary
The singer was a bad boy and a bully, and even scolding and whipping did not cure him. He carries on getting into mischief with the girls. He marries and has numerous children, for if he and his wife ever quarrel they make up by carrying on the same old game.
Item Notes
Music transcribed in the School of Scottish Studies. 4 verses with refrain. Fragmentary text of a music-hall song, originally sung by Bransby Williams, of the sort which entered bothy tradition around 1900.
See:
Willie Mathieson's MSS II:38
Language
Scots
Genre
Collection
Source Type
Reel to reel
Audio Quality
Good