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Hap an Row

Date January 1952
Track ID 18360
Part 1

Track Information

Original Track ID

SA1952.13.B3

Original Tape ID

SA1952.013

Summary

Swaddle the baby's feet. The singer recognised the child as a piper's illegitimate child as soon as she heard its cry.

Willie Mathieson learned the song from his mother.

Item Notes

Text transcribed in School of Scottish Studies. 4 lines. Tune is 'Orange and Blue' rather than the usual 'Reel o Stumpie'. Not in Willie Mathieson's MS.

See:
Greig-Duncan vol. 7, p. 233
'Tocher' 14 (1974) p. 211

Recording Location

County - Aberdeenshire

Parish - Ellon

Village/Place - Ellon

Language

Scots

Collection

SoSS

Classification

R7252 GD1398 R3482

Source Type

Reel to reel

Audio Quality

Good