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NEFA
1994.018.01 Transcription
P: Gordon Easton
T: Bogie's Bonnie Belle
FL: Ae Market Day in Huntly toon, it's there I did agree
S: Bothy song. (False start and restart.)
NEFA
1994.018.02 Transcription
P: Gordon Easton
T: Ord's Bothy Songs and Ballads
S: GE got some songs from John Ord's book. He was a bobby in
Glasgow.
NEFA
1994.018.03 Transcription
P: Gordon Easton
T: Grandmother used to sing
S: GE's grandmother used to sing many of the songs named here,
especially the 'Scottish' ones (as opposed to 'traditional') and
a few of the classic ballads.
NEFA
1994.018.04 Transcription
P: Gordon Easton
T: Sunday travel, driving the highways and byways
S: GE has a good memory for tunes, songs, words and roads (maybe
slipping a bit now). They never really had vacations, working for
themselves, but used to go on Sunday excursions, sometimes covering
as much as 400 miles in a day. Describes where they used to go.
NEFA
1994.018.05 Transcription
P: Gordon Easton
T: Bonnie Bessie Logan
FL: Bonnie Bessie Logan, she's handsome, young and fair
S: GE's grandmother sang that one. So did John Mearns. GE
has won prizes with it.
NEFA
1994.018.06 Transcription
P: Gordon Easton
T: Background information on The Bonnie Border Burn
S: Song was made by accordionist Dick Black. He made The Lass
o Cornhill too.
NEFA
1994.018.07 Transcription
P: Gordon Easton
T: The Bonnie Border Burn
FL: When I wis jist a laddie in yon lang summer days
S: Song by accordionist Dick Black.
NEFA
1994.018.08 Transcription
P: Gordon Easton
T: The Lass o Cornhill
FL: When I gaed by the border side, a lass I chanced tae see
S: Another song by Dick Black.
NEFA
1994.018.09 Transcription
P:
Gordon Easton
T: Singing out and about
S: GE sings at various local organisations' events.
NEFA
1994.018.10 Transcription
P:
Gordon Easton
T: Jimmy Raeburn
FL: My name is Jimmy Raeburn, fae Glesgae toon I came
S: Followed by story of song. Up to the 1860s people were deported
just for poaching and the like.
NEFA
1994.018.11 Transcription
P: Gordon Easton
T: Singing Jimmy Raeburn in competition and background to his
version
S: Has sung Jimmy Raeburn in competition, successfully. Learned
last verse from singing of Jessie Murray, recorded by Hamish Henderson.
Sings last verse again.
NEFA
1994.018.12 Transcription
P:
Gordon Easton
T: Granda's singing
FL: There wis an aul man come ower the lea
S: Grandfather used to sing The Beggarman. He had all the words,
but not much tune.
NEFA
1994.018.13 Transcription
P:
Gordon Easton
T: The Tyrie Kirk
FL: The leaves were fa'in frae the birk
S: Song by Alec Murison, Beadle and Precentor at Tyrie Kirk.
He was a native of Rosehearty, and married a Tyrie lass. Probably
based on his life story.
NEFA
1994.018.14 Transcription
P: Gordon Easton
T: The Friendly Plooin Match at Tyrie (background)
S: Describes local song about local families. It recounts the
story of a ploughing match held to help out the farmers at Macknagran,
Tyrie. GE describes the song, the people and places mentioned in
the song. GE's grandfather and mother kept the song in an envelope
on the hingin lum. It would be taken out on special occasions and
someone would be asked to recite or sing it.
NEFA
1994.018.15 Transcription
P: Gordon Easton
T: The Friendly Plooin Match at Tyrie
FL: It wis Februar the twinty-saicant, that self-same day we
were expecin't
S: Sings some verses of the song, interspersed with a few comments
on the content.
NEFA
1994.018.16 Transcription
P: Gordon Easton
T: The Auld Meal Mill
FL: When the horse are in the stable and the kye are in the
byre
S: Song and reminiscences of Jimmie Macbeath.
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