The Girl I Left Behind Me
Track Information
Original Track ID
SA1952.07.B6
Original Tape ID
Summary
The singer leaves his home, takes work with a wealthy farmer, and falls in love with his beautiful daughter. She promises to wait for him to return from sea, but he gets a letter telling him she has married another. He meets Peggy Walker who falls in love with him. She wants to marry him but he tells her he still cares for the girl he left behind. They marry happily enough, but he still recalls the girl he left behind.
Willie Mathieson learned the song from a quine [girl] at Montfothie, Skelmuir, when he was eight or nine.
Item Notes
Text and music transcribed in School of Scottish Studies. 8 verses. Not in Willie Mathieson's MSS.
See:
Greig-Duncan vol. 5, pp. 554-555
Ord pp. 45-47
Recording Location
County - Aberdeenshire
Parish - Ellon
Language
Scots
Genre
Collection
Source Type
Reel to reel
Audio Quality
Good