There was a Wee Wifie
Track Information
Original Track ID
SA1976.256.B13
Original Tape ID
Summary
'Tap' was the word for a woman's bun of hair. It occurs in the song beginning, "There was a wee wifockie, she gaed to the fair," in which a woman gets her bun cut off. Mrs Smith thinks the 'tapman' in the song might have been a wig-maker who cut off women's long hair. Mr Smith's version of the song, which he sings, is different from that in the book 'Eighteenth Century Scottish Poetry', which doesn't have the chorus. He always knew it as a song, not a poem. His aunt used to sing it. She had many other Scots songs too.
Item Notes
Transcribed in School of Scottish Studies. 2 verses with chorus. The book referred to may be 'Scottish Poetry of the Eighteenth Century' (ed. George Eyre-Todd, 1896, 1971).
Non Scottish Recording Location
Australia
Non Scottish Recording Location
Astràilia
Language
English, Scots
Genre
Collection
Source Type
Reel to reel
Audio Quality
Good