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Bothy Songs and Ballads
John Ord (editor) |
The Songs
The songs are referenced by page numbers.
Part I.
(a) Songs Relating to Love, Courtship, Marriage, and Domestic Life
- The Banks o’ Deveron Water (Roud 3784; G/D 4:867)
- The Rigs o’ Rye (Roud 985; Laws O11; G/D 5:1054)
- Ythanside (Roud 3783; G/D 5:951)
- Drummalochie (Roud 2481; G/D 5:1043)
- Courting Among the Kye (Roud 3785; G/D 5:878)
- O Gin That I Were Mairrit (Roud 3786)
- The Collier Laddie (Roud 3787; G/D 5:991)
- Love’s Adieu (Roud 3788)
- I’ll Ne’er Forget the Parting (Roud 262; Laws P1; G/D 5:1059; Henry H188)
- The Hedger (Roud 19; G/D 3:437; Henry H622, 117; TYG 37)
- Oor Dochter Jean (Roud 3789)
- Blythe Mormond Braes (Roud 4598; G/D 4:712)
- I’m a Workin’ Chap (Roud 5591; G/D 3:656)
- My Name Is Donald Blue (Roud 3799; G/D 3:581; Henry H835b)
- Tak It, Man, Tak It (Roud 5590)
- I’ll Hang My Harp (Roud 1444; G/D 6:1203; Henry H155)
- I Am Gaun to the Garret (Roud 818; G/D 7:1381)
- Cathie and Me (Roud 5570)
- Mormond Braes (Roud 2171; G/D 6:1142)
- The Merchant’s Daughter Turned Sailor (Roud 552; Laws N10; G/D 1:177)
- Donald’s Return to Glencoe (Roud 515; Laws N39; G/D 5:1044; Henry H655)
- ’Neath the Gloamin’ Star at E’en (Roud 5569; G/D 4:880)
- Rural Courtship (Roud 5568; G/D 3:375)
- The Star of Banchory’s Land (Roud 5567)
- Half-Past Ten (Roud 2856; G/D 7:1501)
- The Bonnie Lassie’s Answer Was Aye “Oh, No” (Roud 3326; G/D 1:98)
- The Lass o’ Glenshee (Roud 292; Laws O6; G/D 5:953; Henry H590)
- The Bleacher Lassie o’ Kelvinhaugh (Roud 3325; G/D 5:1041)
- To Pad the Road Wi’ Me (Roud 4599; G/D 4:875; Henry H18a)
- Forglen You Know (Roud 6286; G/D 8:1547)
- The Bonnie Lad That Handles the Plough (Roud 2170; G/D 3:449)
- The Feeing Time (Roud 2516; G/D 4:883)
- The Tardy Wooer (Roud 582; Laws P3; G/D 4:895)
- Alford Vale (Roud 3954)
- The Constant Lover (Roud 5564)
- Bonnie Lassie, Come to the North Hielands (Roud 5565; G/D 4:853)
- Boyndlie’s Braes (Roud 5585; G/D 4:718)
- Hearken, Ladies, and I Will Tell You, or, the Constant Lovers (Roud 22568; G/D 4:783)
- The Teem Wa’s (Roud 3859; G/D 7:1394)
- Rosey Anderson (Roud 2169; G/D 7:1462)
- Johnny Sands (Roud 184; Laws Q3; G/D 2:319)
- The Gairdner and the Ploughman (Roud 339)
- Blow the Candle Out (Roud 368; Laws P17; G/D 4:788)
- The Wind Blew the Bonnie Lass’s Plaidie Awa (Roud 2574; G/D 7:1413)
- Kissin’ in the Dark (Roud 2534; G/D 4:915)
- The Bonnie Wee Window (Roud 989; Laws O18; G/D 7:1512)
- Johnnie’s Got His Jean, O (Roud 5069, 5539; G/D 4:802)
- The Gallant Shoemaker (Roud 1427; G/D 3:480)
- There Cam’ a Laddie Frae the North (Roud 3951; G/D 5:975)
- Wi’ His Apron On (Roud 5969; G/D 4:866)
- Erin’s Lovely Home (Roud 1427; Laws M6; G/D 6:1098; Henry H46)
- The Bonnie Mason Laddie (Roud 5540; G/D 3:464)
- Jamie and Jeanie—A Duet (Roud 3952; G/D 8:848)
- Peggy in the Morning (Roud 5541; G/D 5:1002)
- The Green Woods o’ Airlie (Roud 3324; G/D 4:846)
- My Bonnie Laddie’s Lang, Long o’ Growing (Roud 31; Laws O35; G/D 6:1222)
- The Bonnie Parks o’ Kilty (Roud 3861; G/D 7:1487)
- Bogie’s Braes (Roud 5542)
- Sally Munro (Roud 526; Laws K11; G/D 1:23; Henry H571)
- Jean and Caledonia (Roud 3801; G/D 8:1522)
- Caledonia (Roud 5543; G/D 2:227)
- Sweet Tayside (Roud 5544; G/D 4:882)
- Davie and His Kye Thegither (Roud 5545; G/D 7:1281)
- Bonnie Glasgow Green (Roud 6262; G/D 6:1130)
- Nellie Douglas (Roud 5547)
- The Old Rustic Bridge by the Mill (Roud 3792; G/D 6:1254)
- The Braes o’ Strathblane (Roud 1096; G/D 6:1132)
- The Gauger (Roud 2343; G/D 5:1015)
- American Stranger (Roud 1081; G/D 7:1469)
- As I Cam’ Owre Yon High, High Hill (Roud 1649; G/D 5:964)
- The Banks of Claudy (Roud 266; Laws N40; G/D 5:1036; Henry H5, H693)
- Irish Molly, O (Roud 2168; G/D 6:1088)
- The Unconstant Lover (Roud 567; Laws P31; G/D 6:1199; Henry H60ab)
- Pitcaithly’s Wells (Roud 5549; G/D 4:925)
- The Maid of Don (Roud 5550)
- Oh! No, No (Roud 832; G/D 5:1053)
- The Wee Totum (Roud 5551; G/D 5:1072)
- Bundle and Go (Roud 3929) (version a)
- Bundle and Go (Roud 3330; G/D 4:888) (version a)
- The Pedlar (Roud 5552; G/D 2:280)
- Peggy o’ Greenlaw (Roud 3949)
- The Foundling Baby (Roud 377; G/D 2:307)
- This Is the Nicht My Johnnie Set (Roud 5553; G/D 4:795)
- Green Bushes (Roud 1040; Laws P2; Henry H143)
- Mither, I Maun Hae a Man (Roud 5554; G/D 7:1333)
- Oh But I’m Weary (Roud 5555; G/D 7:1332)
- The Bad Wife (Roud 5556; G/D 7:1285; Henry H145)
- The Road to Dundee (Roud 2300; G/D 5:971)
- The Washing Day (Roud 3747)
- A Guid, Guid Wife (Roud 5557)
- The Mantle So Green (Roud 714; Laws N38; G/D 5:1033; Henry H76)
- The Back o’ Rarey’s Hill (Roud 6847; G/D 6:1133)
- The Butcher and the Chambermaid (Roud 167; G/D 7:1466)
- When You and I Were Young (Roud 3782)
- The Handsome Cabin Boy (Roud 239; Laws N13; G/D 1:181)
- Low Down in the Broom (Roud 1644)
- My Bonnie Irish Boy (Roud 565; Laws P26; G/D 6:1080; Henry H168)
- The Dawning of the Day (Roud 370; Laws P16; G/D 7:1312)
- I’m to Be Marrit in May (Roud 5559)
- The Mill, Mill, O (Roud 8486; G/D 7:1437)
- The King of the Fairies (Nursery Song) (Roud 5561)
- Cradle Lullabye (Roud 5562)
- Johnny Lad (Roud 2587; G/D 4:755)
(b) Songs of the Forsaken and Jilted
- Seven Years O’er Young (Roud 380; G/D 6:1187)
- On Longside Road (Roud 5583; G/D 6:1143)
- Oh, Ye’ve Been False; or The Curse (Roud 5584)
- The Fause Young Man (Roud 419)
- It Wasna My Fortune to Ger Her (Roud 154; G/D 6:1198)
- The Rambling Beauty (Roud 563; Laws P12; G/D 6:1213)
- I’ll Cheer Up My Heart (Roud 5563)
- The Brewer Lad (Roud 867; G/D 4:916)
- The Days Are Awa That I Hae Seen (Roud 5530; G/D 6:1136)
- When Fortune Turns Her Wheel (Roud 3798; G/D 3:667)
- Go and Leave Me If You Wish It (Roud 459; G/D 6:1145)
- Green Grows the Laurel (Roud 279; G/D 6:1138; Henry H165ab, H624)
- False Mallie (Roud 5529; G/D 6:1202)
- The Bonnie Woods o’ Hatton (Roud 5531)
- Blooming Caroline o’ Edinburgh Town (Roud 398; Laws P27; G/D 6:1151; Henry H148)
- The Rose and the Thyme (Roud 858; G/D 1:52, 6:1139)
- The Flower of France and England, O (Roud 5532; G/D 4:719)
- The Blaeberry Courtship (Roud 1888; Laws N19; G/D 4:852; Henry H193)
- The Flower of Northumberland (Roud 25; Child 9; G/D 6:1149)
- The Haughs o’ Newe (Roud 6781; G/D 6:1238)
- The Belt Wi’ Colours Three (Roud 5534)
- The Beauty of Garmouth (Roud 5535)
- For A’ That and A’ That (Roud 5536)
- The Duke of Argyle’s Courtship (Roud 3797)
- My Mither She Feed Me When I Was O’er Young (Roud 3796)
- The Banks of Inverurie (Roud 1415; G/D 6:1263)
- The Shannon Side (Roud 1453)
- It’s Braw Sailin’ on the Sea (Roud 5537; G/D 6:1217)
- The Flower of Fochabers (Roud 5538)
- Geordie Asking Miss Tiptoe in Marriage (Roud 5067; G/D 4:827)
Part II.
Songs Relating to Farm Life and Work
- Drumdelgie (Roud 2180; G/D 3:384)
- The Weary Farmers (Roud 2181; G/D 3:391)
- The Scranky Black Farmer (Roud 2872; G/D 3:357)
- The Barnyards o’ Delgaty (Roud 2136; G/D 3:347)
- Oh Charlie O Charlie (Roud 2584; G/D 3:401)
- The Ploughman (Roud 5582; G/D 3:451)
- Barley Rigs A-Raking (Roud 1024; G/D 6:1154)
- Swaggers (Roud 4589; G/D 3:386)
- The Painful Plough (Roud 355; G/D 3:448)
- The Plooman Laddie (Roud 3447; G/D 3:445)
- Sleepyto2n (Roud 3775; G/D 3:356)
- Courtin’ in the Stable (Roud 3793; G/D 2:288)
- Gien the Nowte Their Fodder (Roud 3934; G/D 4:839)
- John Bruce o’ the Corner (SA 1953/194 (B3); Roud 3937; G/D 3:372)
- The Barns o’ Beneuchies (Roud 2176; G/D 3:360)
- Broomhill’s Bonnie Dochter (Roud 2175; G/D 4:723)
- The Jolly Ploughboy (Roud 186; Laws M24; G/D 1:170; Henry H105)
- The Dying Ploughboy (Roud 2514; G/D 3:700)
- The Guise o’ Tough (Roud 3800; G/D 3:378)
- Little Benton (Roud 5580)
- The Ploughing Match (Roud 5581; G/D 3:422)
- The Praise of Ploughmen (Roud 5579; G/D 3:447)
- The Milking Song (Roud 3939)
- The Quern-Lilt, or, Grinding Song (Roud 3938)
- Auld Luckie of Brunties (Roud 5577; G/D 3:373)
- Mrs. Greig of Sandlaw (Roud 5161; G/D 2:316)
- Mill of Boyndie (Roud 5576; G/D 3:441)
- Arlin’s Fine Braes (Roud 517; G/D 3:415)
- Sowens for Sap at Oor New Tap (Roud 5575; G/D 3:400)
- The Woods of Rickarton (Roud 5574; G/D 3:417)
- The Braes o’ Broo (Roud 5572; G/D 3:443)
- The Mill o’ Lour (Roud 5573)
- Harrowing Time (Roud 5587; G/D 3:421)
- Newmill (Roud 5588; G/D 3:381)
- Between Stanehive and Laurencekirk (Roud 5589; G/D 3:376)
- Cameloun (Roud 5592; G/D 3:389)
- Ellon Fair (Roud 2166; G/D 3:353)
- The Hairst (Roud 2167)
- The Lothian Hairst (Roud 2165; G/D 3:404)
- Johnnie Sangster (Roud 2164; G/D 3:407)
- The Gallant Shearers (Roud 5593)
- The Bogend Hairst (Roud 3090; G/D 3:348)
- The Band o’ Shearers (Roud 1524; G/D 3:406)
- The Herdie (Roud 5594; G/D 3:429)
- The Hairst o’ Rettie (Roud 3512; G/D 3:408)
- The Harvest Home (Roud 5595; G/D 3:632)
- Herd Laddie’s Lament (Roud 5596)
- The Braw Servant Lasses (Roud 5595; G/D 3:654)
- Darrahill (Roud 3941; G/D 3:351)
- Jock Hawk’s Adventures in Glasgow (Roud 2331; G/D 2:295)
- When the Day’s on the Turn (Roud 5598; G/D 3:545)
- Ye’re Noo on Bogieside (Roud 5600; G/D 3:359)
- Watty’s Wooing (Roud 5601)
- Tipperty’s Jean (Roud 5602)
- Lescraigie (Roud 3940; G/D 7:1490)
Part III.
Songs Relating to Soldiers, Sailors, War, and Adventure
- The Gallant Ninety-Twa (Roud 3776)
- The Battle of Barossa (Roud 2182; G/D 1:148)
- The Muir of Culloden (Roud 3777; G/D 1:127)
- Young Jamie Foyers (Roud 1941; G/D 1:106)
- The Bonnet o’ Blue (Roud 819; G/D 5:992; Henry H644; TYG 80)
- The Highland Maid (Roud 2183; G/D 1:130)
- The Banks o’ the Nile (Roud 950; Laws N9; G/D 1:99; Henry H238a)
- The Plains of Waterloo (Roud 1106; Henry H608)
- The Bonny Bunch of Roses (Roud 664; Laws J5; G/D 1:155)
- The Day of Waterloo (Roud 2184)
- The Bonnie Lass o’ Fyvie (Roud 545; G/D 1:84)
- The Enniskillen Dragoon (Roud 2185; Henry H98b)
- The Recruiting Sergeant (Roud 2355; G/D 1:78)
- It Fell About the Martinmas Time (Roud 2173; G/D 1:161)
- Sweet Calder Burn, or, Bonnie Woodha’ (Roud 3778; G/D 5:947; Henry H476)
- The Soldier Maid (Roud 226; G/D 1:182; Henry H497)
- The Araby Maid (Roud 6725; G/D 5:1007)
- The Bonny Ship the Diamond (Roud 2172; G/D 1:11)
- Nairn River Banks (Roud 3780; G/D 1:92)
- Billy Taylor (Roud 158; Laws N11; G/D 1:169; Henry H213, H757)
- The Whalers’ Song (Roud 970; G/D 1:10)
- I Will Set My Ship In Order (Roud 402; G/D 4:792)
- Young Allan (Roud 242; Child 245; G/D 2:326)
- The Dark-Eyed Sailor (Roud 265; Laws N35; G/D 5:1037; Henry H232)
- Jacky Tar (Roud 5603; G/D 1:59)
- Dicky Johnston, or, The Roving Sailor (Roud 518; G/D 7:1477)
- The Brisk Young Sailor (Roud 264; Laws N42; G/D 5:1038, 6:1201; Henry H471, H818)
- My Bonnie Sailor Boy (Roud 843; Laws M22; G/D 3:413, 6:1117)
- The Lowlands of Holland (Roud 484; G/D 6:1116; Henry H180) (Scottish version)
- The Lowlands of Holland (Roud 484; G/D 6:1116; Henry H180) (English version)
- The Rocks o’ Gibraltar (Roud 2174; G/D 6:1118)
- Scarboroughs’s Banks (Roud 185; Laws K18; G/D 1:20, TYG 7)
- The Mermaid (Roud 124; Child 289; G/D 1:27)
Part IV.
(a) Songs of Home and Country
- Queen Victoria’s Welcome to Deeside (Roud 5605; G/D 1:139)
- In Praise o’ Huntly (Roud 3943; G/D 3:349)
- The Howes o’ King-Edward (Roud 3942)
- Bonnie Udny (Roud 3450; G/D 6:1089)
- The High Rocks o’ Pennan (Roud 3944; G/D 6:1121)
- Bonnie Jeanie Shaw (Roud 3945; G/D 7:1326)
- The Town o’ Arbroath (Roud 3946; G/D 3:520)
- Kelvin’s Purling Stream (Roud 3947)
(b) Laments, Farewells, and Parting Songs
- Oh! Gin I Were Where Gaudie Rins (Roud 5404, G/D 6:1223)
- Farewell to Alvah’s Woods and Braes (Roud 4590; G/D 8:1526)
- The Emigrant’s Farewell to Donside (Roud 1801; G/D 8:1516)
- The Irish Emigrant’s Lament (Roud 2747; Henry H235)
- Tochineal (Roud 4951)
- The Parting of Burns and Highland Mary (Roud 820; Laws O34; G/D 6:1249)
- Last Parting of Burns and Bonnie Jean (Roud 5606)
- Jamie Raeburn’s Farewell (Roud 600; G/D 8:1535; Henry H151)
- Miss Forbes’ Farewell to Banff (Roud 5607)
- The Wars o’ Germanie (Roud 5608)
- In Low Germanie (Roud 5609)
- The Nabob (Roud 4592; G/D 3:538)
- Adieu to Bogie Side (Roud 4593; G/D 8:1517)
- We Part, My Love, to Meet Nae Mair (Roud 4595)
- The Trumpet Sounds at Burreldales, or, The Trooper and the Maid (Roud 4596)
- Farewell Tamintoul (Roud 4594)
- The Exiled Crofter’s Lament (Roud 4597)
(c) Convival Songs
- O Johnnie, My Man (Roud 845; G/D 3:587; Henry H807)
- There’s Whisky in the Jar (Roud 533; Laws L13A; Henry H792)
- A Wee Drappie o’t (Roud 5610; G/D 3:560)
- Sae Will We Yet (Roud 5611; G/D 3:552)
- The Calton Weaver (Roud 883; G/D 3:603; Henry H745)
- Guid Nicht an’ Joy Be Wi’ You A’ (Roud 3936; G/D 8:1530)
- The Beggar Man (Roud 119; Child 280; G/D 2:277; Henry H810)
Part V.
(a) Miscellaneous Songs
- To the Beggin’ I Will Go (Roud 286; G/D 3:488)
- The Beggar’s Dawtie (Roud 119; Child 280; G/D 2:277; Henry H810)
- The Poachers (Roud 519; Laws L18; G/D 2:252)
- Ilka Blade o’ Grass Keps Its Ain Drap o’ Dew (Roud 5612)
- The Smuggler’s Song (Roud 3795)
- Erin-Go-Bragh (Roud 1627; Laws Q20; G/D 2:236)
- A Shilling or Twa (Roud 1627; G/D 3:669) (version a)
- A Shillin’ or Twa (Roud 2178) (version b)
- Miss Gordon o’ Gight (Roud 3891)
- The Wark o’ the Weavers (Roud 374)
- The Knights of Malta (Roud 2430; G/D 3:470; Henry H146)
- The Lion’s Den (Roud 396; Laws O25; G/D 5:1056; Henry H474)
- The Banks o’ Skene (Roud 5613; G/D 1:164)
- I Wish My Granny Saw Ye (Roud 5614)
- The Sports o’ Glasgow Green (Roud 5615)
- Ellen of Aberdeen (Roud 2179; G/D 6:1235)
- Danny Sim’s Sow (Roud 5616)
(b) Ballads
- The Douglas Tragedy (Roud 23; Child 7; G/D 2:220)
- The Banks of Sweet Dundee (Roud 148; Laws M25; G/D 2:224)
- Gight’s Ladye (Roud 90; Child 209; G/D 2:249)
- The Gypsie Laddie (Roud 1; Child 200; G/D 2:278; Henry H124)
- Bonnie Jean o’ Betheline (Roud 101; Child 238; G/D 5:973)
- The Laird o’ Roslin’s Daughter; or Captain Wedderburn’s Courtship (Roud 36; Child 46; G/D 4:842; Henry H681)
- To Roll Her in My Plaidie (Roud 3948)
- The Sheffield Apprentice (Roud 399; Laws O39; G/D 5:998; Henry H31; TYG 71)
- Sir John Gordon (Roud 5617)
- The Dowie Dens o’ Yarrow (Roud 13; Child 214; G/D 2:215)
- Harry Lumsdale’s Courtship (Roud 6186; G/D 4:766)
- The Bonnie Mill-Dams o’ Binnorie (Roud 8; Child 10; G/D 2:213)
- My Lovely Nancy (Roud 375; G/D 5:962)
- The Maiden of Drumdurno (Roud -)
- Cairn-o’-Mount (Roud 3794; G/D 5:1042)
- The Lass o’ Bennochie (Roud 406; Laws M13; G/D 5:1012) (version a)
- The Lass o’ Bennochie (Roud 406; Laws M13; G/D 5:1012) (version b)
- The Lass o’ Bennochie (Roud 406; Laws M13; G/D 5:1012) (version c)
- The Gallant Grahams (Roud 5618; G/D 2:245)
- M’Pherson’s Farewell (Roud 2160; G/D 3:697)
- MacPherson’s Rant (Roud 2160)
- The Loch o’ the Auds (Roud 5619)
- Jock Scott (Roud 5620; G/D 6:1096)
- The Lowlands Low (Roud 122; Child 286; G/D 1:37)
- Charlie Mackie (Roud 5621; G/D 5:1032)
- Willie’s Drowned at Gamerie (Roud 206; Child 215; G/D 6:1227)
- My Geordie, O, My Geordie O (Roud 5622, 90; Child 209; G/D 2:249)
- The Queen’s Maries (Roud 79; Child 173; G/D 2:195)
- Lord Randal (Roud 10; Child 12; G/D 2:209; Henry H814)
- Hey Wi’ the Rose and the Lindsay, O (Roud 9; Child 20; G/D 2:193; TYG 73)
- Geordie Downie (Roud 3930; G/D 7:1349)
- The Runaway Bride (Roud 2876)
- The Lord o’ Aboyne (Roud 99; Child 235; G/D 6:1159)
- The Shepherd Lad o’ Rhynie (Roud 5152; G/D 6:1194)
- Johnny o’ Cocklesmuir (Roud 69; Child 114; G/D 2:250)
- The Bonny House o’ Airlie (Roud 794; Child 199; G/D 2:233)
- Janet Jamieson (Roud 5623; G/D 6:1152)
- The Silvery Tide (Roud 561; Laws O37; Henry H77)
- Harlaw (Roud 2861; Child 163; G/D 1:112)
- Barbara Allen (Roud 54; Child 84; G/D 6:1193; Henry H236)
- The Longford Murderer (Roud 1412; Laws P38; G/D 2:204)
- The Hireman Chiel (Roud 5624; G/D 5:1055)