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Elizabeth Stewart

Elizabeth Stewart from Mintlaw (13.5.1939-13.10.2022) was one of Scotland’s foremost ballad singers, who learned her art from her family, especially her aunt Lucy Stewart (1901-1982).

She was a member of the Fetterangus Stewarts, a family steeped in the oral traditions of the Travelling People. Elizabeth was a gifted player of Scottish traditional music on the piano and, like her mother Jean, led a country-dance band from her teens.

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’Atween You an’ Me

Elizabeth Stewart: ’Atween You an’ Me (Hightop Imagery HTI001)

’Atween You an’ Me
Elizabeth Stewart

Hightop Imagery HTI001 (cassette, UK, 1992)
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Musicians

Elizabeth Stewart: vocals

Tracks

Side 1

  1. Sailin, Sailin (Roud 273; Laws K12; G/D 6:1245) (3.55)
  2. The Jolly Beggar (Roud 118; Child 279; G/D 2:274) (3.45)
  3. Doctor Pritchard (Roud 4805)
  4. Hey Donal’ (Roud 6258; G/D 4:910)
  5. I Aince Hid a Lass (Roud 154; G/D 6:1198) (6.09)
  6. The Gallant Forty-Twa (Roud 1877; G/D 1:70)
  7. Two Pretty Boys (Roud 38; Child 49) (4.13)

Side 2

  1. The Plooman Laddies (Roud 3448) (2.37)
  2. In London Town (Roud 1414; G/D 6:1155)
  3. The Laird o Dainty Doonby (Roud 864; G/D 7:1488) (3.21)
  4. The Cruel Mither (Roud 9; Child 20; G/D 2:193; TYG 73) (5.35)
  5. The Wee Toon Clerk (Roud 120; Child 281; G/D 2:317; Henry H201) (4.09)
  6. Up Yon Wide and Lonely Glen (Roud 375; G/D 5:962; Henry H177) (4.41)

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Binnorie

Elizabeth Stewart: Binnorie (Elphinstone Institute EICD002)

Binnorie
Songs, Ballads, and Tunes
Elizabeth Stewart

The Elphinstone Institute, University of Aberdeen EICD002 (2 CD, UK, 2004)
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Produced by Alison McMorland;
Recorded in 1992 and by Steve Ransome at RSD Studios, Backmill, Turiff, Aberdeenshire in 2004;
Mastered by Steve Ransome;
Song notes by Thomas A. McKean;
Cover photographs by Alison McMorland;
CD cover and layout by Malcolm Reavall

Musical Traditions review by Ian Olson

Musicians

Elizabeth Stewart: vocals, piano

Tracks

CD 1

  1. The Butcher’s Boy (Roud 263; Laws P35; G/D 2:200) (5.33)
  2. The Yowie wi the Crookit Horn (Roud 2140) (3.11)
  3. I’m a Big Strong Strapping Young Hizzy (Roud 18913) (2.37)
  4. Lord Gordon’s Bonnie Boys (Roud 18914) (6.05)
  5. Peer Wee Jockie Clark (Roud 2135) (3.45)
  6. The Foreign Sailor (Roud 1403) (5.25)
  7. The Russian Jew (Roud 13562; G/D 8:1902) (2.55)
  8. The Gallant Rangers (Roud 480; Laws A8) (4.53)
  9. Robert Stewart’s Farewell to Holland / The Queen o the Dukker / The Cameron Highlanders piano tunes (3.57)
  10. The Cruel Mother (Roud 9; Child 20; G/D 2:193; TYG 73) (5.35)
  11. Up Yon Wide and Lonely Glen (Roud 375; G/D 5:962; Henry H177) (4.41)
  12. The Jolly Beggar (Roud 118; Child 279; G/D 2:274) (3.45)
  13. Sailin, Sailin (Roud 273; Laws K12; G/D 6:1245) (3.55)
  14. The Wee Toon Clerk (Roud 120; Child 281; G/D 2:317; Henry H201) (4.09)
  15. The Hielan Wedding / The Land o Diurnblaii / The Blue Bells o Scotland piano tunes (6.33)

CD 2

  1. Binnorrie (Roud 8; Child 10; G/D 2:213) (6.11)
  2. I’m a Good Looking Widow (Roud 7199; G/D 7:1302) (3.07)
  3. Jimmie Foyers (Roud 1941; G/D 1:106) (7.21)
  4. Hish-ee-ba (Roud 3449) (3.37)
  5. The Coast o Spain (Roud 18915) (4.39)
  6. Little Ball o Yarn (Roud 1404) (2.35)
  7. The Gypsy Laddies (Roud 1; Child 200; G/D 2:278; Henry H124) (7.53)
  8. Up Among the Heather (Roud 1506) (2.43)
  9. Come A’ Ye Fisher Lassies (Roud 12504) (2.15)
  10. Auld Betty’s Cairty / Jean Stewart’s Tunes / Big Hamish piano tunes (3.37)
  11. The Laird o the Dainty Doonby (Roud 864; G/D 7:1488) (3.21)
  12. Two Pretty Boys (Roud 38; Child 49) (4.13)
  13. Hey Donal, Ho Donal (Roud 6258; G/D 4:910) (2.47)
  14. I Aince Hid a Lass (Roud 154; G/D 6:1198) (6.09)
  15. Plooman Laddies (Roud 3448) (2.37)
  16. The Maid o the Ugie / McKenzie Hay / The Barren Rocks o Aden piano tunes (4.35)

CD 2, track 9 Ewan MacColl

CD 1, tracks 10-13, and CD 2, tracks 11-15 were first released on the cassette ’Atween You an’ Me (Hightop Imagery HTI001, 1992)

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Up Yon Wide and Lonely Glen

Elizabeth Stewart: Up Yon Wide and Lonely Glen

Up Yon Wide and Lonely Glen
Travellers’ Songs, Stories and Tunes of the Fetterangus Stewarts
Elizabeth Stewart (1939-2022)
Compiled and edited by Alison McMorland
University Press of Mississipi in association with the Elphinstone Institute, University of Aberdeen, 2012
ISBN 978-1-61704-308-7 (paperback)
ISBN 978-1-61704-314-8 (hardback)
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The Songs

The songs are referenced by page numbers.

Chapter One

  1. Aul Betty’s Cairtie piano composition [Elizabeth Stewart, 2002]
  2. Up Yon Wide and Lonely Glen (Roud 375; G/D 5:962; Henry H177)
  3. The Gypsy Laddies (Roud 1; Child 200; G/D 2:278; Henry H124)
  4. The Battle of Harlaw (Roud 2861; Child 163; G/D 1:112)
  5. The Baron of Brackley (Roud 4017; Child 203; G/D 2:234)
  6. Bonnie Udny (Roud 3450; G/D 6:1089)
  7. Twa Recruiting Sergeants (Roud 3356; G/D 1:77)
  8. The Gallant Rangers (Roud 480; Laws A8)
  9. Jimmie Foyers (Roud 1941; G/D 1:106)
  10. The Gallant Forty-Twa (Roud 1877; G/D 1:70)
  11. O Cursed Be the Wars (Roud 904; G/D 1:96)
  12. Peer Wee Jockie Clark (Roud 2135)
  13. Yowie wi the Crookit Horn [John Skinner] (Roud 2140)
  14. The Derby Ram (Roud 126; G/D 3:645; TYG 59)
  15. Up Among the Heather (Roud 1506)
  16. Oh It’s I Am Gaun tae Be Mairrit (Roud 818; F/D 7:1381)
  17. The Laird o Windy Waas (Roud 135; G/D 4:778)
  18. Fits Ails Thee? (Roud 23558)
  19. Hish-ee-ba (Roud 3449)
  20. Oh God Will Judge You Willie Darlim (Roud 30668)
  21. The Swan Sweems Sae Bonnie (Roud 8; Child 10; G/D 2:213)
  22. Barbary Allen (Roud 54; Child 84; G/D 6:1193; Henry H236)
  23. John Riley (Roud 270; Laws M8; G/D 1:22; Henry H468)
  24. It Wis of a Brisk Young Sailor Boy (Roud 6312)
  25. Sailin, Sailin (Roud 273; Laws K12; G/D 6:1245)
  26. Three Bunches o Black Ribbons (Roud 5081)
  27. Big Hamish of the SSS piano composition [Elizabeth Stewart, 2002]

Chapter Two

  1. One Day in Dunblane (Roud 23940)
  2. Diddlin / Pie Fart
  1. Jean Stewart’s Tune piano composition [Elizabeth Stewart, 2002]
  2. The Butcher Boy (Roud 263; Laws P35; G/D 2:200)
  3. The Cruel Grave (Roud 22567)
  4. Sir Patrick Spens (Roud 41; Child 58; G/D 1:17)
  5. The Laird o the Dainty Doonby (Roud 864; G/D 7:1488)
  6. Ny Nannie, O (Roud 22579)
  7. Roy’s Wife o Ardivalloch (Roud 5137; G/D 4:748)
  8. The Wee Toun Clerk (Roud 120; Child 281; G/D 2:317; Henry H201)
  9. Robin Tamson’s Smiddy (Roud 939; Laws O12; G/D 5:1009)
  10. In Londown Town (Roud 1414; G/D 6:1155)
  11. The Gypsy’s Warning (Roud 3760)
  12. When I Wis Single (Roud 654; TYG 33)
  13. Johnny Ma Man (Roud 845; G/D 3:587; Henry H807)
  14. Cod Liver Oil (Roud 4221)
  15. The Dying Plooboy (Roud 2514; G/D 3:700)
  16. A Wee Drappie o’t (Roud 5610; G/D 3:560)
  17. Donal Blue (Roud 3799; G/D 3:581; SH835ab)
  18. The Heilan Men’s Ball (Roud 3389)

Four Dance Verses

  1. Hey the Cuck (Roud 1506)
  2. Big Uggie (Roud 23931)
  3. Oh Some Say the Deil’s Deid (Roud 8904)
  4. Oh Fits Aa the Steers Cummers? (Roud 23930)
  1. There Was an Auld Man He Cam Ower the Lea (Roud 212; Child 279 Appendix)
  2. Hm-hmm (When I Wis a Wee Laddie) (Roud 2858)
  3. Three Bonnie Lassies fee Bunion (Roud 818; G/D 7:1381)
  4. Hip an Raw (Roud 7252; G/D 7:1398)

Five Children’s Songs

  1. Big Mother Hen (Roud 23932)
  2. Ten O’Clock Is Ringing (Roud 12986; G/D 8:1623)
  3. My Lad’s a Bonnie Lad (Roud 20512)
  4. Three Jews Lived in Jericho (Roud 3708)
  5. Miss-is Brown (Roud 12982)
  1. The Maid o the Ugie piano composition [Jean Stewart, 1950, adapted by Elisabeth Stewart]

Chapter Three

  1. The Braes o Killiecrankie [Robert Burns] (Roud 8187)
  1. Queen o the Dukker piano composition [Elizabeth Stewart, 2002]
  2. As I Went A-Walking (Roud 151)
  3. Oh Am a Miller tae My Trade (Roud 888; G/D 7:1489)
  4. The Plooman Laddies (Roud 3448)
  5. The Barrin o the Door (Roud 115; Child 275; G/D 2:321)
  6. MacPherson’s Rant (Roud 2160; G/D 3:697)
  7. The Laird o’ Drum (Roud 247; Child 236; G/D 4:835)
  8. Tifty’s Annie (Roud 98; Child 233; G/D 5:1018)
  9. The Bonny Hoose o Airlie (Roud 794; Child 199; G/D 2:233)
  10. My Heilan Lassie, O (Roud 22583)
  11. In Green Caledonia (Roud 820; Laws O34; G/D 6:1249)
  12. Flora MacDonald’s Lament (Roud 22582)
  13. Oh Come Awa Charlie (Roud 23937)
  14. The Pride o Glencoe (Roud 515; Laws N39; G/D 5:1044; Henry H655)
  15. Mebbe I’ll Be Mairriet (Roud 6210)
  16. The Braes o’ Balquidder [Robert Tannahill] (Roud 541; G/D 4:862)
  17. The WAddin o McGinnis tae His Cross-Eyed Pet (Roud 5158)
  18. I’m Coortin Mary o Argyll (Roud 22588)
  19. I’m a Good-Lookin’ Widda (Roud 7199; G/D 7:1302)
  20. Oh Well Dae I Mind the Day (Roud 23936)
  21. Look at Rocky Donal (Roud 23935)

Two Children’s Songs

  1. Cups and Saucers (Roud 20353)
  2. Poor Gracie She’s Dead (Roud 797; TYG 88)
  1. The Bells of Farewell (Roud 2605)
  2. There Was a Man Indeed (Roud 19103)
  3. Kahoy (Roud 19189)
  4. The Russian Jew (Roud 13562; G/D 8:1902)
  5. Jimmie Raeburn (Roud 600; G/D 8:1535; Henry H151)
  6. The Bonny Wee Irish Boy (Roud 565; Laws P26; G/D 6:1080; Henry H168)
  7. Oh Down in London Fair (Roud 2989; G/D 1:178; Henry H203)
  8. In the Year of Eighteen Hundred and Forty and Five (Roud 347; Laws K21; G/D 1:9)
  9. The Rocks o’ Gibraltar (Roud 2174; G/D 6:1118)
  10. There’s a Rose in Yon Garden (Roud 7005)
  11. A Lady Was in Her Garden Walking (Roud 3325; G/D 5:1041)

Chapter Four

  1. Where Did You Come From Baby Dear (Roud 23934)
  2. Oh Leepie-Peepie (Roud 23933)
  1. Robert Stewart’s Farewell tae Holland piano composition [Elizabeth Stewart, 1984]
  2. Binnorie (Roud 8; Child 10; G/D 2:213)
  3. The College Boy (Roud 31; Laws O35; G/D 6:1222)
  4. Two Pretty Boys (Roud 38; Child 49)
  5. When the Kye Comes Hame (Roud 12919)
  6. The Maid From Glenshee (Roud 292; Laws O6; G/D 5:953; Henry H590)
  7. The Jolly Beggar (Roud 118; Child 279; G/D 2:274)
  8. The Cruel Mother (Roud 9; Child 20; G/D 2:193; TYG 73)
  9. The Dowie Dens o Yarrow (Roud 13; Child 214; G/D 2:215)
  10. Bunch of Watercresses (Roud 1653)
  11. The Bailiff’s Daughter (Roud 483; Child 105; G/D 1:168)
  12. The Banks o Allan Water (Roud 4260)
  13. The Nicht o the Weddin o Lauchy McGraw (Roud 22785)
  14. I’m a Big Strong Strapping Young Hizzy (Roud 18913)
  15. Hey Donal, Ho Donal (Roud 6258; G/D 4:910)
  16. Doctor Pritchard (Roud 4805)
  17. I Eence Hid a Lass (Roud 154; G/D 6:1198)
  18. What Can a Young Lassie (Roud 1295)
  19. The Collier Laddie (Roud 3787; G/D 5:991)
  20. The Foreign Sailor (Roud 1403)
  21. Oh Whit Needs I Go Busk and Braw (Roud 1049)
  22. Turn Ye tae Me (Roud 23557)
  23. The Little Ball of Yarn (Roud 1404)
  24. My Husband’s Got Nae Courage in Him (Roud 870; G/D 7:1367)
  25. Come Aa Ye Fisher Lassies [Ewan MacColl] (Roud 12504)
  26. Big Jimmy Drummond (Roud 2157)
  27. The Jolly Tinker (Roud 863) [Elizabeth Stewart, 2002]
  28. The Coast o Spain (Roud 18915) [Elizabeth Stewart, 2003]
  29. Cruel Edwin [Elizabeth Stewart, 2008]
  30. Jimmie Fleeman [Elizabeth Stewart, 2009]
  31. Lord Gordon’s Bonnie Boys (Roud 18914) [Elizabeth Stewart, 2004]
  32. Geordie’s Jig piano composition [Elizabeth Stewart, 2005]
  33. Alison’s Waltz piano composition [Elizabeth Stewart, 2007]

Stories

  1. The Stewart Royal Line
  2. Turn Ye tae Me
  3. This is the story about an uncle of mine
  4. Well there wis a tramp on the road, trampin along
  5. The Gamling Laird and the White Horse
  6. A Ghost Funeral
  7. Gregory’s Ghost
  8. The Red-Heided Family
  9. The Woman With the Door on Her Back and the Robbers
  10. The Three Brothers
  11. The Big Loaf and the Three Good Advices

Song Fragments

  1. The Fetterangus Rangers (Roud 10548)
  2. Ma Bonnie Heilan Sodger (Roud 2496; G/D 1:91; Henry H782)
  3. Come Carry Me to Prairie (Roud 23650; Laws B1)
  4. I Wis Speedin on a Train (Roud 4290)
  5. In This World I Gaint My Knowledge (Roud 1958)
  6. The Heilan Laddie (Roud 23938)
  7. Oh As I Gaed up the Cannagate (Roud 23939)
  8. Red and Rosy Wis Her Cheeks (Roud 308; G/D 5:946; Henry H711)
  9. Friends As I Struck tae Milguy (Roud 2516; G/D 4:883)
  10. Wee Birdie Cam te Oor Haa Door (Roud 16902)
  11. Assist Me All Ye Muses (Roud 4593; G/D 8:1517)
  12. At the Cross (Roud 8131)

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Other records with Elizabeth Stewart

Singing the Fishing (Argo DA 142) Ewan MacColl, Charles Parker, Peggy Seeger: Singing the Fishing (The Radio Ballads Vol. 3), LP, Argo RG 502, 1966, DA 142, 1971

Folk Songs of North-East Scotland (Greentrax CDTRAX5003) Various Artists: Folk Songs of North-East Scotland, CD, Greentrax CDTRAX5003, 1995

Various Artists: North East Tradition I (Springthyme SPRC 1040) Various Artists: North East Tradition I, cass., Springthyme SPRC 1040, 1997

Here's a Health to the Company (Autumn Harvest AH 002) Various Artists: Here's a Health to the Company (Old Songs & Bothy Ballads Volume 1), CD, Autumn Harvest AH 002, 2005

For Friendship and for Harmony (Autumn Harvest AH 003) Various Artists: For Friendship and for Harmony (Old Songs & Bothy Ballads Volume 2), CD, Autumn Harvest AH 003, 2006

Nick-Knack on the Waa (Autumn Harvest AH 006) Various Artists: Nick-Knack on the Waa (Old Songs & Bothy Ballads Volume 4), CD, Autumn Harvest AH 006, 2008

The Little Ball of Yarn (Autumn Harvest AH 011) Various Artists: The Little Ball of Yarn (Old Songs & Bothy Ballads Volume 8), CD, Autumn Harvest AH 011, 2012