Eence Upon a Time
Track Information
Original Track ID
SA1957.107.B4
Original Tape ID
Summary
The singer reminisces about when she fed her young man bread and ale to encourage him to intimacy.
Item Notes
1 verse. Mildly bawdy fragment, a variant of the song of the same name about a betrayed girl.
Porter and Gower suggest a possible origin of this song, but fail to mention the clear link with 'Had I the Wyte?' (Roud Folk Song No. 7253), itself modelled on the Robert Burns' song of the same name. Ray Fisher used Jeannie Robertson's fragment and added verses of her own.
See:
'Come Gie's a Sang' (S. Douglas, 1995) p.66
'Greig-Duncan Folk Song Collection' vol.7, p.234
'The Scottish Folksinger (N. Buchan & P. Hall, 1973) p.63
'Songs from David Herd's Manuscripts' (H. Hecht, 1904) p.117, 288
'Jeannie Robertson: Emergent Singer, Transformative Voice' (J. Porter
& H. Gower, 1995) pp.217-218
Recording Location
County - Aberdeenshire
Parish - Aberdeen
Village/Place - Aberdeen
Language
Scots
Genre
Collection
Classification
Source Type
Reel to reel
Audio Quality
Good