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The Tarves Rant

Date 15 October 1952
Track ID 21338
Part 1

Track Information

Original Track ID

SA1952.28.B5 (B20)

Original Tape ID

SA1952.028

Summary

The singer is a baillie promising to tell a true story from near Tarves. He is not a horseman or ploughman but a cattleman. One night he gos to Tarves for a drink and some fun. It all goes wrong and he ends up in court and is fined.

Jimmy MacBeath had the song from Jimmy Craib on whose family's farm at Moss-side in Deskford he was working.

Item Notes

8 verses.

See:
Greig-Duncan vol. 3, pp. 391-396

Recording Location

County - Moray

Parish - Elgin

Item Location

County - Aberdeenshire

Parish - Tarves

Language

Scots

Collection

SoSS

Classification

R4847 GD576

Source Type

Reel to reel

Audio Quality

Good