Geordie Gunn
Contributors
Fieldworkers
Date
January 1952
Track ID
2009
Part 1
Track Information
Original Track ID
SA1952.03.B7; SA1952.03.B16
Original Tape ID
Summary
Geordie Gunn claims to be the pride of his family. He says he does not care for the women he meets and that he would not give his grandmother for one of them. When they marry, quiet girls become shrews.
Item Notes
Text and music transcribed in School of Scottish Studies. 3 verses with refrain. Willie Mathieson got the song from John MacBain, a crofter at Dudwick, who sang it at a wedding and later wrote it out for Willie, then aged about ten.
See:
Willie Mathieson's MSS 1:144
Language
Scots
Genre
Collection
Source Type
Reel to reel
Audio Quality
Good