Tobar an Dualchais - Kist O Riches

Title - The Faithful Sailor Boy
Contributors - Elsie Morrison
Reporters - Hamish Henderson

Summary - Song about a woman's lover lost at sea. The man's comrades deliver a farewell letter to the woman when they return to dock without him.

The contributor says she got the song from Nellie [surname unclear].

Track Duration (h:m:s) - 00:03:54
Date Recorded - 1956.04
Language - English, Scots
Genre - Song, Information
Collection - School of Scottish Studies

Track ID - 20030
Original Tape ID - SA1956.040
Original Track ID - SA1956.40.8
Audio Quality - Good
Audio Format - R2R

Classification - GD66; LK13; R376;


Recording Location:
  County - Moray
  Parish - Bellie
  Village - Nether Dallachy

Item Notes - 6 verses, or 3 verses and a chorus after each (although chorus varies). Broadside from 1880-1900, 'The Sailor Boy', published at the Poet's Box in Dundee. In NLS broadsides collection.
See also:
Greig-Duncan vol. 1, pp. 151-156 (various versions)
Laws K13

Permanent Link - http://www.tobarandualchais.co.uk/fullrecord/20030/1


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