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When I Was Noo But Sweet Sixteen

Fieldworkers
Date 1987
Track ID 83024
Part 1

Track Information

Original Track ID

SA1987.129

Original Tape ID

SA1987.129

Summary

In this song, a young woman has been abandoned by her ploughman lover, and must care for their baby all alone. She regrets not having listened to her mother's advice to beware young men, and recalls with sadness how fine life was not so long ago when she was sixteen.

Item Notes

A variant title is 'Hishie Ba' (Roud 3449).

Language

English, Scots

Genre

Song

Collection

SoSS

Classification

R5138 R3449

Source Type

Reel to reel

Audio Quality

Good