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The Wexford Girl

Date 24 June 1969
Track ID 64102
Part 1

Track Information

Original Track ID

SA1969.52

Original Tape ID

SA1969.052

Summary

A murder ballad in which a young man, having promised to marry his lover, invites her to take a walk then kills her and throws the body in the water. On returning home he goes to bed, only to be haunted by visions of Hell. The crime is later discovered, and he is hung on the gallows.

Ethel Findlater learned this song from her mother many years previously.

Item Notes

14 verses of 4 lines.

See:
Greig-Duncan vol. 2, pp. 45-48, no. 200
'Folksongs of Britain & Ireland' (P. Kennedy, 1975) p. 713
'Scottish Studies' 16 (J. Porter & H. Gower, 1972) pp. 150-151
'Jeannie Robertson' (J. Porter & H. Gower, 1995) pp. 236-238
'Everyman's Book of English Country Songs' (R. Palmer, 1979) pp. 107-109
'Travellers' Songs from England and Scotland' (E. MacColl & P. Seeger, 1977) pp. 242-246
'Folk-Song of the North-East' (G. Greig, K. Goldstein & A. Argo, 1963 reprint) art. CXXXVII & CLXXIX

Language

English

Collection

SoSS

Classification

R263 GD200 LP35

Source Type

Reel to reel

Audio Quality

Good