Dowie Dens o Yarrow
Contributors
Fieldworkers
Date
August 1955
Track ID
30841
Part 1
Track Information
Original Track ID
SA1955.147.A6
Original Tape ID
Summary
The lady has several noble suitors but loves a ploughboy. They challenge him to a fight and he chooses a broadsword. The lady has a dream, which her mother interprets as signifying that her lover is dead. She carries his body home form Yarrow and asks her mother to make her bed, as she will die for him.
Sheila Stewart learned the ballad some three months before the time of the recording.
Item Notes
6 verses, short version. Tragic ballad. This is one of the earliest recordings of this major tradition bearer.
See:
Greig-Duncan vol. 2, pp. 99-113
Ord pp. 426-427
Recording Location
County - Perthshire
Parish - Blairgowrie
Village/Place - Blairgowrie
Language
Scots
Genre
Collection
Source Type
Reel to reel
Audio Quality
Good