Puir Wee Jocky Clark
Contributors
Fieldworkers
Date
c. January 1960
Track ID
55616
Part 1
Track Information
Original Track ID
SA1960.145.B21
Original Tape ID
Summary
In this song, young Jocky Clark sells newspapers in the street. His life is hard, as his family is poor and his father a drunkard. Jocky asks his mother to make a jacket for him out of his father's old coat; the result is splendid, and Jocky is thrilled.
Item Notes
6 verses of 4 lines; last line of last verse missing as the tape runs out.
See:
'Scotland Sings' (E. MacColl, 1953) p. 95
National Library of Scotland, Broadside Ballad collection, L.C.Fol.70(31a) (Poets' Box, Dundee, 1880-1900)
Recording Location
County - Aberdeenshire
Parish - Old Deer
Village/Place - Fetterangus
Language
Scots
Genre
Collection
Source Type
Reel to reel
Audio Quality
Fair