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Young Emily

Date 26 November 1976
Track ID 60487
Part 1

Track Information

Original Track ID

SA1976.217.2

Original Tape ID

SA1976.217

Summary

Young Emily's parents own a public house and she has fallen in love with a sailor lodging with them. She has a dream that he is lying bleeding in a stream. She goes downstairs and asks her mother where the sailor is. She is told that her parents have robbed and killed him. She says they will die publicly.

Item Notes

8 verses.

See:
Greig-Duncan vol. 2, pp. 14-21

Recording Location

County - Midlothian

Parish - Edinburgh

Village/Place - Edinburgh

Language

English

Genre

Song

Collection

SoSS

Classification

R182 GD189 LG11

Source Type

Reel to reel

Audio Quality

Good