Tobar an Dualchais - Kist O Riches

Title - Robin Tamson's Smiddy
Contributors - Lucy Stewart
Reporters - Prof. Kenneth Goldstein

Summary - In this comic courtship song, the singer visits Robin Tamson's smithy. While having his horse shod, he woos the smith's daughter. She decides to run off with him, as she believes her father will not let her marry until she is old. When the smith catches up with the pair, the singer suggests the smith marry his mother; after some thought, the smith agrees.

Track Duration (h:m:s) - 00:03:42
Date Recorded - 1959.12
Language - Scots
Genre - Song
Collection - School of Scottish Studies

Track ID - 56054
Original Tape ID - SA1960.143
Original Track ID - SA1960.143.A8
Audio Quality - Fair
Audio Format - R2R

Classification - GD1009; LO12; R939;


Recording Location:
  County - Aberdeenshire
  Parish - Old Deer
  Village - Fetterangus

Item Notes - 6 verse of 4 lines with a vocable chorus. 'Robin Tamson's Smiddy' was composed by Alexander Rodger (1784-1846), and was one of his most popular songs.
See:
Greig-Duncan, vol. 5, pp. 263-265, no. 1009
'Poems & Songs' (A. Rodger, 1838) pp. 186-188
'Traditional Tunes' (F. Kidson, 1891) pp. 82-84
'Book of Scottish Song' (A. Whitelaw, 1845) p. 165
'Poems & Songs' (A. Rodger, ed. R. Ford, 1897) pp. 1-3
'Whistlebinkie' vol. 1 (pub. D. Roberston, 1905) pp. 398-400
'Vagabond Songs & Ballads' vol. 1 (R. Ford, 1899) pp. 194-196
'The Glasgow Poets: Their Lives and Poems' (G. Eyre-Todd, 1906) pp. 174-175
'Folk-Song of the North-East' (G. Greig, K. Goldstein & A. Argo, 1963 reprint) art. CXXXIX
National Library of Scotland, Broadside Ballad collection, L.C.Fol.70(42b), (Poets' Box, Dundee, 1880-1900)


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