Camaloun

Original Track ID

SA1952.18.A4

Original Tape ID

SA1952.018

Summary

The singer leaves Tarves to go to Camaloun near Fyvie to work a pair of horses and rise at five. He is roused very early to work the [winnowing] fan, then to have breakfast. He is told to yoke his horse and plough over the brae [hillside], but he is hungover and is sick, so has a glum morning. The cattleman wears a long vest; the cook is not very good; the dairymaid is shy. Fyvie parish is long, wide and full of pride, but the singer intends to leave at Whitsun and if anyone enquires after him, he has gone!

Willie Mathieson learned the song from a man called Willie Mutch.

Item Notes

Text transcribed in School of Scottish Studies. 13 verses. Also called 'Fyvie's Lands in the Mornin'. Not in Willie Mathieson's MSS. Read from Ord (p. 260).

There are three farms called North, South and Meikle Camaloun near Fyvie.

See also:
Greig-Duncan vol. 3, pp. 92-94

Recording Location

Item Location

Language

Scots

Genre

Song Information

Collection

SoSS

Classification

R5592 GD389

Source Type

Reel to reel

Audio Quality

Good