FTX-060 - McCAFFERY & McPHERSON
JIMMY MacBEATH -3-
| Jimmy MacBEATH (1894-1974) with 16 songs and 4 stories - some background
to the song about MacCaffery, the soldier condemned for shooting his colonel
- and MacPherson, the freebooter, who smashed his fiddle before dying at
the gallows, a few moments before the arrival of the royal reprieve over
Banff bridge |
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THE WIND BLEW THE BONNY LASSIE'S PLAIDIE AWA' - HEY JUMP
AND ON YOU GO - AWA TAE THE SCAP I THE MORNING - TOBACCO, PIPES & PORTER
- SMITH'S A GALLANT FIREMAN - WHEN THE BOAT COMES IN - SKIPPIN' BARFIT' THROUGH
THE HEATHER - games, fights, football, playing truant - VAN DIEMAN'S LAND -
poaching - MacCALLUM - A Dark Wood - HE WIDNA WANT HIS GRUEL - The rich girl
and the robbers - GALLANT FORTY TWA - EPPIE MORRIE - The devil of Portsoy -
TORN-A-GOON - Scots poets - THE TROOPER LAD
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