The Dowie Dens of Yarrow
Contributors
Fieldworkers
Date
15 October 1952
Track ID
21331
Part 1
Track Information
Original Track ID
SA1952.28.B2 (B17)
Original Tape ID
Summary
A lady is courted by nine nobles and a ploughman, who fights the others. He kills three and wounds three, and three run, but her brother stabs him in the back. She carries him home wrapped in her long yellow hair.
Jimmy MacBeath learned the ballad when he was a small boy from his mother, who would sing as she sat weaving.
Item Notes
Text transcribed in School of Scottish Studies. 7 verses.
See:
Greig-Duncan vol. 2, pp. 99-113
Ord pp. 426-427
Recording Location
County - Moray
Parish - Elgin
Language
Scots
Genre
Collection
Source Type
Reel to reel
Audio Quality
Good