The Tocherless Lass
Contributors
Fieldworkers
Date
January 1952
Track ID
17150
Part 1
Track Information
Original Track ID
SA1952.09.A1
Original Tape ID
Summary
In this song the girl says that even though she has no land or cattle, she has plenty of suitors though the one she really wanted is across the ocean and did not marry her. Her real dowry is her beauty.
Willie Mathieson cannot recall when he first heard the song.
Item Notes
3 verses, 4 choruses. In Willie Mathieson's MSS (III:204), he notes that he learned the song from Mrs Harold George, Banff. Variant of usual tune.
This is an English translation of the Gaelic song 'Gun Chrodh Gun Aighean'.
See:
'The Celtic Lyre' (Edinburgh, 1885) song no. 10
Recording Location
County - Aberdeenshire
Parish - Ellon
Village/Place - Ellon
Language
Scots
Genre
Collection
Source Type
Reel to reel
Audio Quality
Good