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The Gallowa Hills

Date 03 September 1986
Track ID 82118
Part 1

Track Information

Original Track ID

SA1986.127

Original Tape ID

SA1986.127

Summary

Invitation song in which the singer asks his sweetheart to go with him to Galloway. She consents.

Item Notes

Recorded at Edinburgh Folk Club. Audience joins in with chorus.

'The Gallowa Hills' is believed to have originated from a song by William Nicholson (15th August 1783 - 16th May 1849) called 'The Braes of Galloway', first published in his 'Tales in Verse, and Miscellaneous Poems descriptive of Rural Life and Manners' (1814). 20th century versions appear to stem from broadsides in the late 19th century.

See:
'101 Scottish Songs' (N. Buchan, 1962) p. 102
National Library of Scotland, Broadside Ballad collection, RB.m.143(119)
'Jeannie Robertson: Emergent Singer, Transformative Voice' (J. Porter & H. Gower, 1995) pp. 171-172
'Tales in Verse, and Miscellaneous Poems descriptive of Rural Life and Manners' (W. Nicholson, 1814), pp. 262-263

Recording Location

County - Midlothian

Parish - Edinburgh

Village/Place - Edinburgh

Item Location

Village/Place - Galloway

Language

Scots

Genre

Song

Collection

SoSS

Classification

R3358

Source Type

Reel to reel

Audio Quality

Good