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Barrie's Trip

Date September 1960
Track ID 76780
Part 1

Track Information

Original Track ID

SA1960.205.A18

Original Tape ID

SA1960.205

Summary

I'm no gaun tae Barrie's trip,
I'm no gaun again;
I'm no gaun tae Barrie's trip,
It ayeways comes on rain.
[Repeated.]

Barrie's trip was organised by a man who ran a mission in the Grassmarket [in Edinburgh] which held an annual trip like a Sunday School picnic. Jean Redpath got the song from Stuart [MacGregor?], who picked up the song from a drunk in a pub, who learned the song as a child.

Item Notes

One verse, sung twice. Barrie's Trip was organised through the Grassmarket Mission, by "Bailey [sic] Barrie ... a councillor ('Memories of Edinburgh Streets: The City Image', The Living Memory Association, 2001, p. 11).

Item Location

County - Midlothian

Parish - Edinburgh

Village/Place - Edinburgh

Language

Scots

Collection

SoSS

Source Type

Reel to reel

Audio Quality

Fair