Jamie Raeburn
Track Information
Original Track ID
SA1959.108.B7
Original Tape ID
Summary
Jeannie Robertson sings the opening of the song 'Jamie Raeburn', in which the titular character laments leaving Scotland after being sentenced to transportation [for an unspecified crime].
Item Notes
1 verse of 4 lines.
See:
Greig-Duncan vol. 8, pp. 52-63, no. 1535
'Flying Cloud' (M. C. Dean, 1922) pp. 90-91
'101 Scottish Songs' (N. Buchan, 1962) p. 40
'Come Gie's a Sang' (S. Douglas, 1995) pp. 58-59
Bodleian Library Broadside Ballads, 2806 c.14(19)
'Bothy Songs & Ballads' (J. Ord, 1930) pp. 357-358
'Singing Island' (E. MacColl & P. Seeger, 1960) p. 80
'The Sang's the Thing' (S. Douglas, 1992) pp. 163-164
'Flower of Dunaff Hill' (J. McBride, 1988) pp. 100-101
'Herd Laddie o the Glen' (A. McMorland, 2006) pp. 47-48
'Vagabond Songs & Ballads' vol. 2 (R. Ford, 1901) pp. 55-56
'Sam Henry's Songs of the People' (G. Huntington, 1990) p. 124
Murray Collection (Broadsides), Glasgow University Library, mu23-y1:106
'Travellers' Songs from England and Scotland' (E. MacColl & P. Seeger, 1977) pp. 288-290
National Library of Scotland, Broadside Ballad collection, RB.m.143(121) (Poets' Box, Dundee, 1880-1900) & L.C.1270(013) (1840-1850)
Item Subject/Person
Raeburn, Jamie
Recording Location
County - Kincardineshire
Parish - Fetteresso
Village/Place - Stonehaven
Item Location
County - Lanarkshire
Parish - Glasgow
Village/Place - Glasgow
Language
Scots
Genre
Collection
Source Type
Reel to reel
Audio Quality
Good