Tobar an Dualchais - Kist O Riches

Title - The Tardy Wooer
Contributors - William Milne
Reporters - William Montgomerie

Summary - The couple have been courting for ages without talk of marriage. The woman broaches the subject, and the man says that would be the end of his freedom, so they part with him asking her to invite him to her wedding. She soon meets someone who does propose, and invites her former sweetheart to the wedding. He turns up expecting to win her back. She quotes back his words and tells him he can come to her wedding and serve the bridegroom.

Track Duration (h:m:s) - 00:03:23
Date Recorded - 1952.07-08
Language - Scots
Genre - Song
Collection - School of Scottish Studies

Track ID - 73847
Original Tape ID - SA1952.048.051
Original Track ID - SA1952.49.5
Audio Quality - Good
Audio Format - R2R

Classification - GD895; LP3; R582;


Recording Location:
  County - Angus
  Parish - Arbroath and St Vigeans

Item Notes - Text transcribed in School of Scottish Studies. 7 verses.
See:
Greig-Duncan vol. 4, pp. 450-462
Ord pp. 83-84

Permanent Link - http://www.tobarandualchais.co.uk/fullrecord/73847/1


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