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Ballad of the Yowe Buchts

Track Information

Original Track ID

SA1974.290.B1

Original Tape ID

SA1974.290

Summary

Mary has gone milking and nine gentlemen come along. One takes hold of her and they spend time together. He rides off and Mary goes off with her milking pails. When she gets back to her father's home, he says she has been away a long time. She says it was because of a tod (fox) among the ewes. On a summer day when she is with her ewes, nine gentlemen come by, one jumps off his horse and asks if she will take him in but she says she has a man at home. He reminds her of the time they spent in the buchts and tells one of his men to find her a mount. He is the laird and he will marry her.

Item Notes

12 verses. Preceded by a fragment of conversation apparently about a mispronunciation.

See:
Greig-Duncan Collection 4 pp. 268-275

Language

Scots

Genre

Song Other

Collection

SoSS

Classification

R92 GD838 C217

Source Type

Reel to reel

Audio Quality

Good