FTX-183 - THREE LOVELY LASSES

THE TRAVELLERS CAMPFIRE - 1

English Romany gypsies join Scots and Irish tinkers singing around the campfire after a hard days rasperry picking in fields belonging to Alex ands Belle Stewart at Blairgowrie, Perthshire. Singers include Angela & Maud Brasil, Duncan, John and Elizabeth McPhee, Kathleen Maguire, Thomas Walsh, Peter McDonald, Margaret Jeffrey and Charlotte Higgins.

1. THREE LOVELY LASSES IN BANNION Maud Brasil (talk before & after) - 2'23"

2. THE FALSE KNIGHT UPON THE ROAD (Child #3) Duncan McPhee (talk before) - 1'30"

3. COME FEE WI ME, TAM BUIE? (Hiring Song) Duncan (talk before) - 4'38"

4. THE BANKS OF RED ROSES Duncan - 3'10"

5. JOHNNY, GO DOWN TO YOUR UNCLE Elizabeth McPhee (talk before & after) - 1'55"

6. TWELVE AND A TANNER A BOTTLE Elizabeth - 1'06"

7. EARLY EARLY ALL IN THE SPRING (Died for Love - 1) Kathleen Maguire (22) (talk before) - 3'09"

8. THE TWO PRISONERS (Burglar Song) John McPhee (18) with talk about the Stewarts & Stuarts (talk before & after) - 4'48"

9. RUNNAIG ANNS SIDHE (2v in Scots Gaelic) John (talk before) - 0'43"

10. SALLY MUNRO Angela Brasil (16) (talk after) - 2'26"

11. Stories: JIMMY FREEMAN, THE LAIRD O UDNY'S FOOL & JOCK THE WORTHY Charlotte Higgins - 2'33"

12. WHAT IS THE BLOOD ? (Edward: Child #13) Angela Brasil (talk before) - 2'11"

13. THE POOR SMUGGLER'S BOY Angela - 2'19"

14. COD LIVER OIL John McPhee - 1'29"

15. FOUR AND NINE Thomas Walsh (talk before & after) - 2'18"

16. THE LABOURING MAN'S DAUGHTER Peter McDonald preceded by rhyme in "Gammon" explained in English - 4'32"

17. JOHNNY MY MAN (Farewell to Whisky) Duncan McPhee - 1'33"

18. THEY'RE QUEER FOLK I' THE SHAWS Duncan (talk after) - 2'38"

19. WHEN I WAS A YOUNG MAID (The Female Drummer) Margaret Jeffrey (70) (talk before & after) - 4'31"

20. I'M A DUNDEE WEAVER Margaret (2v with talk between) - 0'55"

21. THE BLACKBIRD (Died for Love - 2) Charlotte Higgins - 2'55"

Recorded by Peter Kennedy in the berryfields, Blairgowrie, Perthsh, July 1955. Edited by Peter Kennedy and first published by Folktrax 1979. Phonographic copyright control. Unauthorised public performance, broadcasting or copying is prohibited except by permission.