Johnny Lad
Fieldworkers
Date
1957
Track ID
32488
Part 1
Track Information
Original Track ID
SA1957.20.B1
Original Tape ID
Summary
A wife is bought for a halfpenny and change is given. Samson wears crimson flannel drawers. Napoleon did not rule Polmadie. The Queen is playing football on Glasgow Green and has the opposing captain arrested. A man in Nineveh scratches his eyes out, and then scratches them back again. Johnny is the best lad out of twenty-nine.
Item Notes
8 verses with choruses, nonsense song. Recorded at Morris Blythman's ceilidh.
See:
'Ancient Ballads and Songs' vol. 2 (Buchan, 1828,1875) pp. 146-147
Ord pp. 168-169
Language
Scots
Genre
Collection
Classification
Source Type
Reel to reel
Audio Quality
Good