The Lothian Hairst
Contributors
Fieldworkers
Date
January 1952
Track ID
2022
Part 1
Track Information
Original Track ID
SA1952.03.B11; SA1952.03.B20
Original Tape ID
Summary
The song celebrates particular scythemen who travelled by boat from North-East Scotland to work on the farms of the Lothians.
Item Notes
Text and music transcribed in School of Scottish Studies. 5 verses. Willie Mathieson got the song from the same source as the previous song on the same tape (SA1952.003), that is from his second wife, who had it from Sandy Ross.
See:
Greig-Duncan vol. 3, pp. 111-116
Ord p. 264
Willie Mathieson's MSS 1:23
Language
Scots
Genre
Collection
Source Type
Reel to reel
Audio Quality
Good