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Lord Gregory

Date 1966
Track ID 57242
Part 1

Track Information

Original Track ID

SA1966.113.A10

Original Tape ID

SA1966.113

Summary

Annie takes her baby and makes her way to Lord Gregory's home. She seeks admission but gets no answer. She begs entry as it is raining and she fears her baby will die. Lord Gregory wakes and tells his mother he has had a dream that Annie was at the gates, and that she is dead. His mother tells him that she has denied Annie admission and he curses her. He goes to the shore and finds Annie dead and the baby lost.

The contributor heard the song from her mother, who heard it from her blind grandmother. The contributor is thirteen, was born in Grangemouth, and had lived in Aberdeen for about four years. The first ballad she learned was 'The Dowie Dens of Yarrow'.

Item Notes

11 verses, double.

See:
Greig-Duncan 6, pp. 421-425

Language

English, Scots

Collection

SoSS

Classification

R49 GD1226 C76

Source Type

Reel to reel

Audio Quality

Good