Hap an Row
Contributors
Fieldworkers
Date
January 1952
Track ID
18360
Part 1
Track Information
Original Track ID
SA1952.13.B3
Original Tape ID
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
Genre
Collection
Source Type
Reel to reel
Audio Quality
Good