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When I was Noo But Sweet Sixteen

Date 02 June 1988
Track ID 98255
Part 1

Track Information

Original Track ID

SA1988.110

Original Tape ID

SA1988.110

Summary

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

Item Notes

Guitar accompaniment. Recorded at a concert in the Queen's Hall, Edinburgh, honouring Hamish Henderson on the occasion of his retirement. A variant title is 'Hishie Ba' (Roud Folk Song Index no. 3449).

Recording Location

County - Midlothian

Parish - Edinburgh

Village/Place - Edinburgh

Language

Scots

Genre

Song

Collection

SoSS

Source Type

Reel to reel

Audio Quality

Fair