FTX-066 - THE TINKER'S
WEDDING
BOTHY BALLADS &
BOTHY STORIES
JOHN STRACHAN -2-
17 Bothy ballads and talk about the Aberdeenshire
plough-lads - farmwork, wages and the stories of local bothy courtships
- provide a vivid picture of Lowland farm-life and the annual hiring fairs
- some songs recorded by Alan Lomax at a ceili in Edinburgh in 1951 arranged
by Hamish Henderson
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THE PLOO-MAN LADDIE - GUISE O'TOUGH - BONNY UDNY - O GIN
I WERE WHERE THE GADIE RINS - HAIRSTS O' RETTIE - MORMOND BRAES - BEGGAR WENCH
- BALL O'KIRRIEMUIR - TWA'N TWA - CUCKOOS NEST - BOG-HEAD CREW - RHYNIE - LIST
BONNY LADDIE - JOLLY MILLER - ERIN GO BRAGH