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NEFA 1994.040.01 Transcription
P: Jimmie Thain
T: Family background
S: Father went to New Deer when he was six. Grandfather
from Keith, mother belonged to Fyvie. Mother's father was from Gight,
the farm where Jimmie was fee'd four times. They're buried in the
churchyard. Father in the Culsh cemetery.
NEFA 1994.040.02 Transcription
P: Jimmie Thain
T: Independence
S: Never
married. Too independent.
NEFA 1994.040.03 Transcription
P: Jane Turriff
T: In my Arms
FL: In
my arms there was no one
S: Voice
with electric organ.
NEFA 1994.040.04 Transcription
P: Jane Turriff
T: The Banks o Reid Roses
FL: Come
an listen tae ma sang an I'll tell ye o a waddin
S: Voice
with electric organ. 1 When I wis a young thing, mammy, gang an'
play; 2 On the banks o reid roses, ma love an' I sat doon, an' johnny
took oot his fiddle....love an I sit doon ...beneath Reid Roses;
3 When I wis a young thing; 4 Johnny took his sweetheart for a walk
and stabbed her in the heart; 5 When I wis a young thing; 6 Johnny
took the high road, howkin, etc.; 7 When I wis a young thing; 8
Instrumental.
NEFA 1994.040.05 Transcription
P: Jane Turriff
T: Floo'er o the Heather (You're my Heather Belle)
FL: Floo'er
o the heather, ye're my heather belle
S: Voice with electric organ. Her mother sang this one.
NEFA 1994.040.06 Transcription
P: Jane Turriff
T: Jealous Heart
S: Voice
with electric organ. Modern song. This is the kind of song she used
to sing when she was young, her favourite kind.
NEFA 1994.040.07 Transcription
P:
Jane Turriff
T: Jealous Heart
FL: Jealous heart, o jealous heart, keep beatin
S: Voice
with electric organ. Another go.
NEFA 1994.040.08 Transcription
P:
Jane Turriff
T: Have You Ever Been Lonely
FL: Have
you ever been lonely, have you ever been blue
S: Voice
with electric organ.
NEFA 1994.040.09
P: Jane Turriff
T: Jealous Heart
FL: Jealous heart, o jealous heart, keep beatin
S: Voice
with electric organ. Back into this song from the previous one.
Those were Jimmie Rogers songs.
NEFA 1994.040.10 Transcription
P: Jane Turriff
T: The Old Pals
FL: Oh
the old pals are always the best
S: Voice with electric organ.
NEFA 1994.040.11 Transcription
P: Jane Turriff
T: This is my Home Town
S: She
made the whole song and the tune and gave them to Hamish Henderson
and James Porter. She gave them three songs, Home Town is a great
song. The song is about her boy who was seventeen at the time and
away from home. Her husband was lying down and she made the song
and wrote it down. She called him down to listen to it. She always
used to make up songs. She was thinking about the boy and was sad.
JP and HH recorded it and the tape is the first time she heard the
song all through. [Sings several verses.] She did not remember it
until she heard it on the tape. [Voice with electric organ.]
NEFA 1994.040.12 Transcription
P: Jane Turriff
T: I've Jist Cam Hame tae See ma Friens
S: Voice with electric organ. Another song by
JT. She can't remember all of this one, and never sings it. She
made the tune and the words for My Home Town.
NEFA 1994.040.13 Transcription
P: Jane Turriff
T: Give Me all your Love and your Charms
FL: Give
me all your love and your charms
S: Voice with electric organ. She
made another song too.
NEFA 1994.040.14 Transcription
P:
Jane Turriff
T: Making up an old tune
S: She
made up "an old tune" the other night. She forgot it, but it comes
back every so often. She hasn't made words to it yet.
NEFA 1994.040.15 Transcription
P:
Jane Turriff
T: Flooer o the Heather
FL: Floo'er
o the heather, ye're my heather belle
S: Voice with electric organ. She
likes this one. She likes Harry Lauder songs too.
NEFA 1994.040.16 Transcription
P: Jane Turriff
T: My Bonnie Wee Annie, the Flooer o Drumblane
FL: Oh
we met on a hillside on a bright summer's day
S: Voice with electric organ. A very old song she heard
her mother and grandmother singing.
NEFA 1994.040.17 Transcription
P: Jane Turriff
T: Can I Sleep in your Barn Tonight, Mister
FL: Let
me sleep in your barn tonight, mister
S: Voice
with electric organ. ????.
NEFA 1994.040.18 Transcription
P: Jane Turriff
T: Home, Home on the Range
FL: Oh give me a home, where the buffalo roam
S: Voice
with electric organ.
NEFA 1994.040.19 Transcription
P: Jane Turriff
T: Among my Souvenirs
S: Voice
with electric organ.
NEFA 1994.040.20 Transcription
P: Jane Turriff
T: Why Do I Always Remember
FL: Our
love was drifting apart
S: Voice
with electric organ.
NEFA 1994.040.21 Transcription
P: Jane Turriff
T: O, O Antonio
FL: O, o Antonio,
he's went away, he left me all alone-i-o
S: Voice
with electric organ.
NEFA 1994.040.22 Transcription
P: Jane Turriff
T: Peggy O' Neil
FL: Ask Peggy O' Neil
S: Voice
with electric organ. Just a couple of verses.
NEFA 1994.040.23 Transcription
P: Jane Turriff
T: Keep the Home Fires Burning
FL: Let me call you sweetheart
S: Voice with electric organ.
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