The Banks o Skene
Contributors
Fieldworkers
Date
Track ID
20800
Part 1
Track Information
Original Track ID
SA1952.17.A3
Original Tape ID
Summary
In this song a girl dresses herself in men's clothing and persuades a heckler to take her on as an apprentice. On the way home after a ball her master discovers her secret and takes her maidenhead, and they marry.
Mr Hay had the song from a man called Hepburn at Balgreen c. 1906-7.
Item Notes
Music transcribed in School of Scottish Studies. 8 verses. In some versions the girl is more complicit in her seduction. This is a fuller and franker version
than that in Ord.
See:
Greig-Duncan vol. 1, pp. 412-419
Ord p. 395
Item Location
County - Aberdeenshire
Parish - Skene
Language
Scots
Genre
Collection
Source Type
Reel to reel
Audio Quality
Good