Scottish songs, and interviews with the singers. Title from container. Jimmy MacBeath, vocals ; Davie Stewart, vocals, accordion ; Alan Lomax, Shirley Collins, Anna Lomax, interviewers. Recorded by Alan Lomax and Hamish Henderson between 1951 and 1957, chiefly in London. One enhanced compact disc and one compact disc. Enhanced portion of CD 1 contains a 53 page PDF file of expanded liner notes, song and interview texts.
Contents:
The story lives forever. Cowpin the dishes ; Hey barra gadgie ; It wis a beggin that we did ; Kindness from a policeman ; Grat for gruel ; How to build a bender ; Chantin, griddlin, and laldyin ; The day we went to Rothesay-oh ; Playing for an all-night hooley ; March, strathspey and reel ; Were you always alone? ; The Forfar sodger ; They put a different turns in their tunes ; Diddling ; Outside, on the safe side ; The ox and the fox dug a hole for me ; It's a long drow at the end ; Old bodies, five or six pounds each ; Did they kill children as well? -- Disc 2. My darling ploughman boy ; From the top of the deck ; Ah likit ma mother ; He used to diddle a lot of songs ; We are called the Buchan Stewarts ; Dark-eyed lover ; It wis a slave drivery ; The barnyards of the Delgaty ; Singin along at their plough ; The laird o dainty Doonby ; The horseman's grip and word ; It was torn, rippit, tattered ; The trooper and the maid ; The story lives forever.
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