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The Lothian Hairst

Date January 1952
Track ID 19692
Part 1

Track Information

Original Track ID

SA1952.21.B7 (B19)

Original Tape ID

SA1952.021

Summary

This is the song of an itinerant harvest worker and the crew she sailed to Lothian with. A Highland girl, she wants to marry a Deeside lad.

Mr Hay heard the song at Kinminty.

Item Notes

Text and music transcribed in School of Scottish Studies. 6 verses.

See:
Greig-Duncan vol. 3, pp. 111-116
Ord p. 264.

Recording Location

County - Aberdeenshire

Parish - Ellon

Language

Scots

Collection

SoSS

Classification

R2165 GD404

Source Type

Reel to reel

Audio Quality

Good