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When I was Noo But Sweet Sixteen

Date 28 November 1986
Track ID 83112
Part 1

Track Information

Original Track ID

SA1986.165

Original Tape ID

SA1986.165

Summary

In this song, a young woman has been abandoned by her ploughman lover, and must care for their baby all alone. She regrets not having listened to her mother's advice to beware young men, and recalls with sadness how fine life was not so long ago when she was sixteen.

Item Notes

Guitar accompaniment. Recorded at Durham Folk Club. A variant title is 'Hishie Ba' (Roud 3449).

Non Scottish Recording Location

England, Durham

Non Scottish Recording Location

Sasainn, Durham

Language

Scots

Genre

Song

Collection

SoSS

Classification

R5138 R3449

Source Type

Cd

Audio Quality

Poor