O Gin I Were Whaur Gadie Rins
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SA1960.200
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Summary
A fragment of a poetic version of the traditional song 'O Gin I Were Whaur Gadie Rins':
O gin I were whaur the Gadie rins
Amang brawlin heaths and the yella whins
And strollin doon the boggy lands
At the fit o Bennachie.
Item Notes
1 verse of 4 lines. Pipe-chanter accompaniment. This fragment comes from a lyrical adaptation by John Park of St Andrews (1805-1865) of a traditional song. Park's first verse is:
Oh, an' I were whaur Gadie rins,
'Mang blooming heaths and yellow whins,
Or brawlin' down the bosky linns
At the back o' Bennachie.
See:
Greig-Duncan vol. 6, pp. 413-416, no. 1223
'101 Scottish Songs' (N. Buchan, 1962) pp. 74-75
'Bothy Songs & Ballads' (J. Ord, 1930) pp. 347-348
'Kerr's Cornkisters' (W. Kemp & J. S. Kerr, 1950) pp. 63-64
'The Scottish Folksinger' (N. Buchan & P. Hall, 1973) pp. 80-81
'Folk-Song of the North-East' (G. Greig, K. Goldstein & A. Argo, 1963 reprint) art. X
'Travellers' Songs from England and Scotland' (E. MacColl & P. Seeger, 1977) pp. 174-175
Language
Scots
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Collection
Source Type
Reel to reel
Audio Quality
Good