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The Flower of Fochabers

Date January 1952
Track ID 17835
Part 1

Track Information

Original Track ID

SA1952.11.B10 (B19)

Original Tape ID

SA1952.011

Summary

The singer sits down to muse on the banks of the Spey and sees a lovely girl, the Flower of Fochabers. He gently approaches her, tells her that she has stolen his heart and asks her to take pity on him. She spurns him and he asks for death, for love of Peggy Clapperton, the Flower of Fochabers.

Willie Mathieson learned the song from Mr Milne, Garbity, Moray, during the First World War.

Item Notes

Text transcribed in School of Scottish Studies. 4 verses. Not in Willie Mathieson's MSS.

See:
Ord p. 204

Recording Location

County - Aberdeenshire

Parish - Ellon

Village/Place - Ellon

Language

Scots

Collection

SoSS

Classification

R5538

Source Type

Reel to reel

Audio Quality

Good