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The Buchan Ferrier

Date
Track ID 55303
Part 1

Track Information

Original Track ID

SA1960.142.B6

Original Tape ID

SA1960.142

Summary

A comic song in which a Buchan ferrier [vet] affirms his own skills and recounts funny anecdotes.

Item Notes

3 verses of 8 lines with a chorus of 4 lines. A song by the famous bothy balladeer G. S. Morris (1876-1958).

See:
'Kerr's Buchan Bothy Ballads' vol. 2 (G. S. Morris & J. S. Kerr, 1957) pp. 21-23

Item Location

County - Aberdeenshire

Village/Place - Buchan

Language

Scots

Genre

Song

Collection

SoSS

Classification

R23330

Source Type

Reel to reel

Audio Quality

Fair