Johnnie My Man
Track Information
Original Track ID
SA1973.112.A1
Original Tape ID
Summary
In this temperance song, a woman comes to find her husband at the alehouse, in order to beg him to give up drinking and return to his family. She describes how his children are starving. He comes to his senses and leaves the tavern, cursing whisky.
Item Notes
4 verses of 4 lines.
See:
'Tocher' 1 (1971) pp. 16-17
Greig-Duncan vol. 3, pp. 424-432, no. 587
'Bothy Songs & Ballads' (J. Ord, 1930) pp. 367-368
'Folksongs of Britain & Ireland' (P. Kennedy, 1975) p. 604
'Vagabond Songs & Ballads' vol. 2 (R. Ford, 1901) pp. 254-256
'Everyman's Book of British Ballads' (R. Palmer, 1980) pp. 215-216
'Sam Henry's Songs of the People' (G. Huntington, 1990) pp. 514-515
'Till Doomsday in the Afternoon' (E. MacColl & P. Seeger, 1986) pp. 249-251
'Folk-Song of the North-East' (G. Greig, K. Goldstein, A. Argo, 1963 reprint) art. V
Murray Collection (Broadsides), Glasgow University Library, mu23-y1:064-65, mu23-y4:030
Recording Location
County - Kinross-shire
Parish - Kinross
Village/Place - Kinross
Language
Scots
Genre
Collection
Source Type
Reel to reel
Audio Quality
Good