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The Girl I Left Behind Me

Date January 1952
Track ID 15992
Part 1

Track Information

Original Track ID

SA1952.07.B6

Original Tape ID

SA1952.007

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

Collection

SoSS

Classification

R6779 GD1236 R262 GD1059 LP1

Source Type

Reel to reel

Audio Quality

Good