| 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 |
