A New Lum Hat
Contributors
Fieldworkers
Date
Track ID
55308
Part 1
Track Information
Original Track ID
SA1960.142.B11
Original Tape ID
Summary
A comic song in which a young man goes to visit his sweetheart sporting a new lum hat [top hat], only to have it destroyed in a series of mishaps.
Item Notes
5 verses of 8 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. 4-5
Language
Scots
Genre
Collection
Classification
Source Type
Reel to reel
Audio Quality
Fair