The Bonnie Laddie's Lang A-growin
Track Information
Original Track ID
SA1953.241.A6
Original Tape ID
Summary
Ewan MacColl believes this to be the best Scottish version of this song, and sings it to illustrate improvised ornamentation.
The girl reproaches her father for marrying her to a younger boy. He tells her that the boy will be a laird. She suggests sending the boy to school for a couple of years and says she will go with him in disguise. She makes him a silk shirt and weeps over it because he is so long growing. He was a husband at twelve, a father at thirteen and dead at fourteen.
Item Notes
9 verses. Recorded at The People's Festival.
See:
'The Scots Musical Museum' vol. 4 (J. Johnson) p. 390, no. 377 'Lady Mary Ann'
Recording Location
County - Midlothian
Parish - Edinburgh
Village/Place - Edinburgh
Language
Scots
Genre
Collection
Source Type
Reel to reel
Audio Quality
Good