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The Tocherless Lass

Date January 1952
Track ID 17150
Part 1

Track Information

Original Track ID

SA1952.09.A1

Original Tape ID

SA1952.009

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

Collection

SoSS

Source Type

Reel to reel

Audio Quality

Good