When I was Noo But Sweet Sixteen
Contributors
Fieldworkers
Date
28 November 1986
Track ID
83112
Part 1
Track Information
Original Track ID
SA1986.165
Original Tape ID
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
Collection
Source Type
Cd
Audio Quality
Poor