McGinty's Meal and Ale
Track Information
Original Track ID
SA1960.142.B9
Original Tape ID
Summary
A comic song in which McGinty's pig gets loose and runs amok during a harvest-home celebration.
Item Notes
6 verses of 8 lines with a chorus of 4 lines after verse 3 and 6. Composed by George Bruce Thomson (1864-1914).
N.B. Roud Folk Song Index groups this with a different song, 'Sheelicks', by the same composer.
See:
Greig-Duncan vol. 3, pp. 508-510, no. 630
'101 Scottish Songs' (N. Buchan, 1962) pp. 68-70
'Scottish Ballad Book' (N. Buchan, 1973) pp. 204-206
'Kerr's Cornkisters' (W. Kemp & J. S. Kerr, 1950) pp. 24-26
'Travellers' Songs from England and Scotland' (E. MacColl & P. Seeger, 1977) pp. 320-322
'Folk-Song of the North-East' (G. Greig, K. Goldstein, A. Argo, 1963 reprint) art. CXXXIV, CXXXVI
Language
Scots
Genre
Collection
Source Type
Reel to reel
Audio Quality
Fair