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A narrative poem in which the author helps a friend in need...

Date 1952
Track ID 17589
Part 1

Track Information

Original Track ID

SA1952.155.1c

Original Tape ID

SA1952.155

Summary

A narrative poem in which the author helps a friend in need of good meat.

Willie Mitchell's friend in Fife is suffering for lack of good meat, so his friend's wife travels from Fife to Kintyre, where Willie provides her with "guid Scotch meat". She returns, and after preparing the meat for her man, all is well.

Item Notes

Text transcribed in School of Scottish Studies. Five verses of six lines, in the Burns stanza with four long lines and two short (LLLSLS). Willie Mitchell's own composition.

Item Subject/Person

Mitchell, Willie

Language

Scots

Genre

Verse

Collection

SoSS

Source Type

Reel to reel

Audio Quality

Good