Tobar an Dualchais - Kist O Riches

Title - The Feein Time
Contributors - John Argo
Reporters - Hamish Henderson

Summary - In this song, the couple meet on their way to a feeing [hiring] market in Milngavie, go for a drink, forget the feeing, and decide to marry.

John Argo learned the song from Miss Isie Easton, Blackhills of Tyrie, when he was fourteen or fifteen.

Track Duration (h:m:s) - 00:02:32
Date Recorded - 1952.01
Language - Scots
Genre - Song, Information
Collection - School of Scottish Studies

Track ID - 19663
Original Tape ID - SA1952.021
Original Track ID - SA1952.21.A4
Audio Quality - Good
Audio Format - R2R

Classification - GD883; R2516;


Recording Location:
  County - Aberdeenshire
  Parish - Ellon

Item Notes - Music transcribed in School of Scottish Studies. 9 verses. Gavin Greig was John Argo's wife's grandfather, but Argo's versions are quite independent of Greig's, although he used Greig's 'Folk-song of the North-East' to remind himself of verses.
See:
Greig-Duncan vol. 4, pp. 425-433
Ord pp. 82-83


Permanent Link - http://www.tobarandualchais.co.uk/fullrecord/19663/1


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