Tobar an Dualchais - Kist O Riches

Title - The Lass o Gowrie
Contributors - William Milne
Reporters - William Montgomerie

Summary - A man falls in love with a girl who arrives in the Carse of Gowrie. He asks to show her on her way; she says she has in fact come to stay in the Carse, and he frankly asks if she will share his company. She agrees, and one year later they are happily married. He ventures that a happier pair are not to be found, and blesses the happy day he met her.

Track Duration (h:m:s) - 00:01:46
Date Recorded - 1952.08
Language - Scots
Genre - Song
Collection - School of Scottish Studies

Track ID - 4988
Original Tape ID - SA1952.052
Original Track ID - SA1952.52.2
Audio Quality - Good
Audio Format - R2R

Classification - GD954; R3871;


Recording Location:
  County - Angus
  Parish - Arbroath and St Vigeans
  Village - Arbroath


Item Location:
  County - Perthshire
  Parish - Errol
  Village - Carse of Gowrie

Item Notes - Transcribed in the School of Scottish Studies. 8 verses. Pastoral song.
Robert Ford in 'Vagabond Songs and Ballads' (1899) states that "no fewer than four versions ... are well known - one by Colonel James Ramsay of Stirling Castle; one by Lady Nairne; one- 'Kate o' Gowrie' - by William Reid of Glasgow," plus the one he includes, "by an unknown hand".
See also:
Greig-Duncan no. 594
'Andrew Crawfurd's Collection of Ballads & Songs' vol. 1 ((Lyle, 1975) p. 73


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