The Toon o Arbroath
Contributors
Fieldworkers
Date
January 1973
Track ID
27191
Part 1
Track Information
Original Track ID
SA1973.015.B8
Original Tape ID
Summary
The singer remembers his childhood in Arbroath, his parents, his sweetheart and the beauties and joys of his native area. He vows to go back home on the first available ship.
Heard sung by a man from Arbroath in a bothy [farm workers' accommodation].
Item Notes
3 verses with refrains.
See:
Greig-Duncan vol. 3, pp. 319-320
Item Location
County - Angus
Parish - Arbroath and St Vigeans
Village/Place - Arbroath
Language
Scots
Genre
Collection
Classification
Source Type
Reel to reel
Audio Quality
Fair