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NEFA
1994.021.01 Transcription
P: Jane Turriff
T: Travelling in the summer
S: They used to travel to Methlick and Ellon, along the river
Ythan.
NEFA
1994.021.02 Transcription
P: Jane Turriff
T: Pearl fishing
S: Father used to pearl fish in the Ythan. Describes how he
did it.
NEFA
1994.021.03 Transcription
P: Jane Turriff
T: Hawkin
S: Mother used to sell clothes pegs, besoms, etc. door to door.
They could turn their hand to most things. Travelling was a good
life, hard work, but a happy life if you could make a few pennies
here and there.
NEFA
1994.021.04 Transcription
P: Jane Turriff
T: The travelling life
S: Travelling is a great life: a caravan, a horse. JT remembers
one horse in particular, but they had many. They spoiled them. The
horses knew the way home.
NEFA
1994.021.05 Transcription
P: Jane Turriff
T: The runaway horse
S: Story about a horse that ran away and got stuck between two
rucks of hay.
NEFA
1994.021.06 Transcription
P: Jane Turriff
T: A big horse in the road
S: Another anecdote about a big horse.
NEFA
1994.021.07 Transcription
P: Jane Turriff
T: Singing and entertaining yourself
S: Singing is a great way to entertain yourself and others.
It is good to hear the old stories.
NEFA
1994.021.08 Transcription
P: Jane Turriff
T: Hogmanay
S: They celebrated Hogmanay like most people. They would all
be in the house that night, not out. Sometimes there would be a
piper in the street. You hardly hear of that now. Has heard of 'Rise
up aul wife an shak yer feathers' rhyme.
NEFA
1994.021.09 Transcription
P:
Jane Turriff
T: Stockings on New Year's Day
S: They would hang their stockings on New Year's Day, not Christmas.
They had no TVs or electricity, no plumbing. They would stay in
that night, playing music, singing, playing cards.
NEFA
1994.021.10 Transcription
P:
Jane Turriff
T: Father used to get her to sing
S: JT's father used to get her to sing when people were in the
house visiting. He was proud of her. They would have the fiddle
and piano going together. They had a great time in those days, making
their own entertainment.
NEFA
1994.021.11-11b Transcription
P: Jane Turriff
T: A family of pipers and singers
S: JT's family is full of pipers, most of them in the army.
She loves to get them all singing. She has tapes of them all singing.
You have to be in the mood for singing, too. When you are not, it
is a waste of time. JT knows when she is singing well, or not.
NEFA
1994.021.12 Transcription
P:
Jane Turriff
T: Entertaining folk
S: Loves to entertain people and get them to march up and down
the room.
NEFA
1994.021.13 Transcription
P:
Jane Turriff
T: Fasternseven
S: Has not heard of the Candlemas rhyme.
NEFA
1994.021.14 Transcription
P: Jane Turriff
T: Out on the road in spring
S: Used to camp in the fine months, trading this and that for
a pail of milk and the like. Used to eat meat, skirlie and tatties.
NEFA
1994.021.15 Transcription
P: Jane Turriff
T: Work on farms
S: Mother and father used to work on farms, harvesting, thrashin,
etc. Sister fee'd. JT stayed home and worked around the house.
NEFA
1994.021.16 Transcription
P: Jane Turriff
T: Singing is a happy life
S: Singing keeps you happy. She worked around the house a lot.
NEFA
1994.021.17 Transcription
P: Jane Turriff
T: Leaving home
S: Left home when married. Lived near parents, could visit and
sing.
NEFA
1994.021.18 Transcription
P: Jane Turriff
T: Loves singing still
S: Singing is the best. Try to keep yourself happy through song.
You have to sing out.
NEFA
1994.021.19 Transcription
P: Jane Turriff
T: You sing better at home
S: Singing is better at home when you are relaxed. Music is
a gift.
NEFA
1994.021.20 Transcription
P: Jane Turriff
T: The Boston Smuggler
FL: Well I was born in Boston, a place ye a' ken well
NEFA
1994.021.21 Transcription
P: Jane Turriff
T: Poor Little Joe
FL: A carriage was passing with a lady inside
NEFA
1994.021.22 Transcription
P: Jane Turriff
T: There's Nothing Left for Me
FL: There's nothing left for me in the days that used to be
NEFA
1994.021.23 Transcription
P: Jane Turriff
T: Why Should I be so Lonely
FL: Why should I be so lonely, why should I be so blue
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