Banks of Sweet Dundee
Contributors
Fieldworkers
Date
January 1952
Track ID
19387
Part 1
Track Information
Original Track ID
SA1952.20.A8
Original Tape ID
Summary
In this song a girl is left orphaned but wealthy in the care of her uncle. She falls in love with a ploughboy, but her uncle wants to marry her to a rich squire. He arranges for the press gang to take William.
Mr Hay got the song at Kinminty.
Item Notes
4 verses. Mr Hay hoped to recall more later.
See:
Greig-Duncan vol. 2, pp. 137-145; and cf. vol. 5, pp. 478-479, which is a sequel
Ord p. 406
Recording Location
County - Aberdeenshire
Parish - Turriff
Language
Scots
Genre
Collection
Source Type
Reel to reel
Audio Quality
Fair