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Johnny Lad

Date 1957
Track ID 32488
Part 1

Track Information

Original Track ID

SA1957.20.B1

Original Tape ID

SA1957.020

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

Song

Collection

SoSS

Classification

R2587

Source Type

Reel to reel

Audio Quality

Good