John Grumlie
Contributors
Fieldworkers
Date
17 August 1986
Track ID
82597
Part 1
Track Information
Original Track ID
SA1986.124
Original Tape ID
Summary
Comic song in which John Grumlie's wife teaches him a lesson for his lack of appreciation of her housework. They swap roles for the day, and John quickly realises how hard his wife works. He insists that they return to their previous roles.
Item Notes
Electric piano accompaniment. Recorded at 'Generations of Change: A Gathering of Scots', Edinburgh Festival. This song derives from a sixteenth-century poem, 'The Wife of Auchtermuchty', found in the Bannatyne Manuscript (1568), and attributed to Sir John Moffat.
Recording Location
County - Midlothian
Parish - Edinburgh
Village/Place - Edinburgh
Language
Scots
Genre
Collection
Source Type
Reel to reel
Audio Quality
Good