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FTX-187 - TALES FROM A TRAVELLER

JEANNIE ROBERTSON

Jeannie Robertson talks about her life as a traveller - her birth and her parents death - her mother marries a soldier, their hunger, camping at the berryfields, Aberdeen, storytelling, mischievous farm-servants, travellers own laws, a gang raid on their camp, her own courtship, marriage and children, going round canvassing, learning the ballads, her memory - about the singers Davie Stewart and Jimmy McBeath - she also recites a variety of rhymes, tells a folktale, SILLY JOHN AND THE FACTOR, and sings - JIMMY RAEBURN
   
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