Herrin's Heids
Contributors
Date
1971
Track ID
63274
Part 1
Part 2
Track Information
Original Track ID
SA1971.194.10+195.1
Original Tape ID
Summary
This cumulative memory song describes what is to be done with the various parts of the herring's body. Isla St Clair thanks the audience, saying she thought she had sung it pitched a little high.
Item Notes
6 verses with a cumulative extending chorus. Performed live in concert at the Scott Conference ceilidh, held as part of the bicentennial celebrations of Sir Walter Scott's birth. This song is widespread, in various forms, with some of the earliest collected in southern England in the early 1900s.
See:
'The Scottish Folksinger' (Buchan & Hall, 1973) p. 146
Language
Scots
Genre
Collection
Classification
Source Type
Reel to reel
Audio Quality
Good