Jamie Raeburn
Track Information
Original Track ID
SA1960.147.A18
Original Tape ID
Summary
In this song, Jamie Raeburn laments leaving Scotland after being sentenced to transportation.
Item Notes
2 verses of 4 lines. In the remainder of the song as typically sung, Jamie Raeburn bids farewell to his parents and sweetheart, with whom he hopes to be reunited in Heaven.
See:
Greig-Duncan vol. 8, pp. 52-63
'Flying Cloud' (M. C. Dean, 1922) pp. 90-91
'101 Scottish Songs' (N. Buchan, 1962) p. 40
'Come Gie's a Sang' (S. Douglas, 1995) pp. 58-59
Bodleian Library Broadside Ballads, 2806 c.14(19)
'Bothy Songs & Ballads' (J. Ord, 1930) pp. 357-358
'Singing Island' (E. MacColl & P. Seeger, 1960) p. 80
'The Sang's the Thing' (S. Douglas, 1992) pp. 163-164
'Flower of Dunaff Hill' (J. McBride, 1988) pp. 100-101
'Herd Laddie o the Glen' (A. McMorland, 2006) pp. 47-48
'Vagabond Songs & Ballads' vol. 2 (R. Ford, 1901) pp. 55-56
'Sam Henry's Songs of the People' (G. Huntington, 1990) p. 124
Murray Collection (Broadsides), Glasgow University Library, mu23-y1:106
'Travellers' Songs from England and Scotland' (E. MacColl & P. Seeger, 1977) pp. 288-290
National Library of Scotland, Broadside Ballad collection, RB.m.143(121) (Poets' Box, Dundee, 1880-1900) & L.C.1270(013) (1840-1850)
Item Subject/Person
Raeburn, Jamie
Recording Location
County - Aberdeenshire
Parish - Old Deer
Village/Place - Fetterangus
Item Location
County - Lanarkshire
Parish - Glasgow
Village/Place - Glasgow
Language
English
Genre
Collection
Source Type
Reel to reel
Audio Quality
Fair