Jack the Sailor
Contributors
Fieldworkers
Date
Track ID
1982
Part 1
Track Information
Original Track ID
SA1952.03.B1; SA1952.03.B10
Original Tape ID
Summary
Jackie goes to sea and his sweetheart, a wealthy merchant's daughter, dresses as a man and joins a ship. She finds him among the dead and wounded on a battlefield. She takes him to a nearby town. When he recovers they marry.
Item Notes
Text and music transcribed in School of Scottish Studies. 12 verses with refrain. Willie Mathieson learned the song from Jimmy Jaffray, the third horseman at Drakemyre when Willie was in his teens.
See:
Willie Mathieson's MSS II:48
Language
Scots
Genre
Collection
Source Type
Reel to reel
Audio Quality
Good