Robin Tamson's Smiddy
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Title - Robin Tamson's Smiddy
Contributors - Ethel Findlater
Reporters - Alan J. Bruford
Summary - In this comic courtship song, the singer visits Robin Tamson's smithy, and while having his horse shod, 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.
Ethel Findlater learned this song from John Harvey.
Track Duration (h:m:s) - 00:02:43
Date Recorded - 1967.09.25
Language - Scots
Genre - Song, Information
Collection - School of Scottish Studies
Track ID - 63595
Original Tape ID - SA1967.109
Original Track ID - SA1967.109.A4
Audio Quality - Good
Audio Format - R2R
Classification - GD1009; LO12; R939;
Recording Location:
County - Orkney
Parish - Sandwick
Island - Orkney Mainland
Village - Dounby
Item Notes - 5½ verses of 8 lines. 'Robin Tamson's Smiddy' was composed by Alexander Rodger (1784-1846), and was one of his most popular songs. This performance omits the first half of Rodger's first stanza (beginning "My mither ment my auld breeks"), thus ending half a verse out of step with the air, a variant of the tune of 'Green Grow the Rashes' (Roud Folk Song Index no. 2772).
Ethel Findlater mentions on tape SA1961.88 that she learned this song from her husband.
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)
Permanent Link - http://www.tobarandualchais.co.uk/fullrecord/63595/1
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Contributors - Ethel Findlater
Reporters - Alan J. Bruford
Summary - In this comic courtship song, the singer visits Robin Tamson's smithy, and while having his horse shod, 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.
Ethel Findlater learned this song from John Harvey.
Track Duration (h:m:s) - 00:02:43
Date Recorded - 1967.09.25
Language - Scots
Genre - Song, Information
Collection - School of Scottish Studies
Track ID - 63595
Original Tape ID - SA1967.109
Original Track ID - SA1967.109.A4
Audio Quality - Good
Audio Format - R2R
Classification - GD1009; LO12; R939;
Recording Location:
County - Orkney
Parish - Sandwick
Island - Orkney Mainland
Village - Dounby
Item Notes - 5½ verses of 8 lines. 'Robin Tamson's Smiddy' was composed by Alexander Rodger (1784-1846), and was one of his most popular songs. This performance omits the first half of Rodger's first stanza (beginning "My mither ment my auld breeks"), thus ending half a verse out of step with the air, a variant of the tune of 'Green Grow the Rashes' (Roud Folk Song Index no. 2772).
Ethel Findlater mentions on tape SA1961.88 that she learned this song from her husband.
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)
Permanent Link - http://www.tobarandualchais.co.uk/fullrecord/63595/1
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