Now Westlin Winds
Contributors
Fieldworkers
Date
December 1953
Track ID
73
Part 1
Track Information
Original Track ID
SA1953.262.A3
Original Tape ID
Summary
Pastoral love song by Burns, inviting his sweetheart to enjoy the beauties of nature with him.
Jock Cameron heard the song from his grandmother, who was from the west side of Fife. He never heard anyone else sing it. Only once in 30 years did one man recognise it, a man working on the bogeys in Lady Victoria pit; he had heard the song from his own mother or grandmother (but couldn't sing it).
Item Notes
5 verses. By Robert Burns, c. 1775, written for Peggy Thomson when Burns was sixteen. Minimal Scots, mostly English.
Recording Location
County - Midlothian
Parish - Edinburgh
Village/Place - Edinburgh
Language
English, Scots
Genre
Collection
Classification
Source Type
Reel to reel
Audio Quality
Fair