Tobar an Dualchais - Kist O Riches

Title - Half-Past Ten
Contributors - Ethel Findlater; Elsie Johnston
Reporters - Alan J. Bruford

Summary - In this comic courtship song, the singer's efforts to court Jean are frustrated by her father's barring the door at half-past ten each evening. Jean stops the clock one night and the couple are able to see each other into the small hours. Her father wakens early the next morning and is bemused by Jean's trick. The couple are married soon after and look back on the trick with fond memories.

Ethel Findlater learned this song from John Harvey while he was cutting peats one day thirty or forty years previously.


Track Duration (h:m:s) - 00:02:45
Date Recorded - 1967.09.25
Language - Scots
Genre - Song, Information
Collection - School of Scottish Studies

Track ID - 63588
Original Tape ID - SA1967.109
Original Track ID - SA1967.109.A1
Audio Quality - Good
Audio Format - R2R

Classification - GD1501; R2856;


Recording Location:
  County - Orkney
  Parish - Sandwick
  Island - Orkney Mainland
  Village - Dounby

Item Notes - 8 verses of 4 lines; very start of first verse missing. Believed to have been written by a Mrs Bacon, who lived at Bainsford, Falkirk.

See:
Greig-Duncan vol. 7, pp. 470-475, no. 1501
'Come Gie's a Sang' (S. Douglas, 1995) pp. 88-89
'Bothy Songs & Ballads' (J. Ord, 1930) pp. 71-72
'Vagabond Songs & Ballads' vol. 1 (R. Ford, 1899) pp. 113-115
'Folk-Song of the North-East' (G. Greig, K. Goldstein & A. Argo, 1963 reprint) art. LXXXII
National Library of Scotland, Broadside Ballad collection, L.C.Fol.178.A.2(077) (1860-1880), RB.m.168(213) (Glasgow, 1840-1860)

Permanent Link - http://www.tobarandualchais.co.uk/fullrecord/63588/1


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