Courtin amang the Kye
Contributors
Fieldworkers
Date
January 1952
Track ID
2020
Part 1
Track Information
Original Track ID
SA1952.03.B10 (B19)
Original Tape ID
Summary
The singer overhears a young couple courting. The young man wants his love to come away with him but she says she is too young and poor. She tells him to court another, richer girl, but he says he cannot and she agrees to marry.
Item Notes
Text and music transcribed in School of Scottish Studies. 7 verses. Willie Mathieson learned the song from his second wife, who got it from Sandy Ross.
See:
Greig-Duncan vol. 4, pp. 403-413
Ord pp. 37-39
Willie Mathieson's MSS 1:102
Language
Scots
Genre
Collection
Source Type
Reel to reel
Audio Quality
Good