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Twa Recruiting Sergeants

Date 1957
Track ID 35043
Part 1

Track Information

Original Track ID

SA1957.107.A8

Original Tape ID

SA1957.107

Summary

Two recruiting sergeants going round the markets to entice young farm workers into the Black Watch have only recruited 42 men. They tell them that their current work is hard and dangerous, and the food poor; if they have got a girlfriend and baby they can escape by enlisting.

Item Notes

5 verses with chorus.

See:
Greig-Duncan vol. 1, pp. 178-179

Recording Location

County - Aberdeenshire

Parish - Aberdeen

Village/Place - Aberdeen

Language

Scots

Genre

Song

Collection

SoSS

Classification

R3356 GD77

Source Type

Reel to reel

Audio Quality

Good