Tobar an Dualchais - Kist O Riches

Title - The Gallowa Hills
Contributors - Jeannie Robertson
Reporters - Hamish Henderson; Maurice Fleming

Summary - In this song the singer asks a pretty girl to come with him and share his lot in a strange country, to which she agrees, saying that she will sell her possessions and they will go over the hills to Galloway.

Track Duration (h:m:s) - 00:04:28
Date Recorded - 1961.07.10
Language - Scots
Genre - Song
Collection - School of Scottish Studies

Track ID - 37186
Original Tape ID - SA1961.044
Original Track ID - SA1961.44.A10
Audio Quality - Fair
Audio Format - R2R

Classification - R3358;


Recording Location:
  County - Angus
  Parish - Dundee
  Village - Dundee

Item Notes - 3 verses and choruses of 4 lines; much of the first verse and chorus is obscured by tape error.
'The Gallowa Hills' is believed to have originated from a song by William Nicholson (15th August 1783 - 16th May 1849) called 'The Braes of Galloway', first published in his 'Tales in Verse, and Miscellaneous Poems descriptive of Rural Life and Manners' (1814). 20th century versions appear to stem from broadsides in the late 19th century.
See:
'101 Scottish Songs' (N. Buchan, 1962) p. 102
National Library of Scotland, Broadside Ballad collection, RB.m.143(119)
'Jeannie Robertson: Emergent Singer, Transformative Voice' (J. Porter & H. Gower, 1995) pp. 171-172
'Tales in Verse, and Miscellaneous Poems descriptive of Rural Life and Manners' (W. Nicholson, 1814), pp. 262-263)

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