When I was Noo But Sweet Sixteen
Contributors
Fieldworkers
Date
02 June 1988
Track ID
98255
Part 1
Track Information
Original Track ID
SA1988.110
Original Tape ID
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
Collection
Source Type
Reel to reel
Audio Quality
Fair