My Wife's First Man
Contributors
Fieldworkers
Date
Track ID
55289
Part 1
Track Information
Original Track ID
SA1960.142.A6
Original Tape ID
Summary
A comic song in which the singer has married a widow, only to learn that her first husband did all the chores and errands and the singer is expected to do the same.
Item Notes
3 verse of 8 lines with a changing chorus of 4 lines. A song by the famous bothy balladeer Willie Kemp (1888–1965).
See:
'Kerr's Cornkisters' (W. Kemp & J. S. Kerr, 1950) pp. 54-56
Language
Scots
Genre
Collection
Classification
Source Type
Reel to reel
Audio Quality
Fair