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NEFA
1994.041.01 Transcription
P: Jane Turriff
T: Ma Wee Doggie
FL: Oh I love apples and I love pears
S: Starts with a middle verse. The verses in this rendition
are a little mixed up. She says this is not the right key.
NEFA
1994.041.02 Transcription
P: Jane Turriff
T: Ma Wee Doggie
FL: For he's took thon high road an' she's taen thon glen
S: Another go at the song in a higher key. She starts with this
late verse and then goes back to some earlier ones. That was her
grannie's song. She has a lot of memories of them. They were always
singing even while they worked. There were no TVs. She lies awake
at night and thinks of her mother singing [Clive arrives].
NEFA
1994.041.03 Transcription
P: Jane Turriff
T: ????
FL: As I went out walking down by thon lonely shore
S: With electric organ. A song that she is working on for her
grand-daughter Leahandrai. She's quite pleased with it. [Jane plays
the organ and hums the song.]
NEFA
1994.041.04 Transcription
P: Jane Turriff
T: The Bonnie Blue Hanky
FL: Where are you going to my pretty fair young maid
S: Voice and electric organ.
NEFA
1994.041.05 Transcription
P: Jane Turriff
T: McFarlane o the Sprotts o Birnie Bouzie
FL: I dinna like McFarlane
S: Voice and electric organ. Starts on second half of verse
but goes back to beginning at the end. Sings just a few verses.
NEFA
1994.041.06 Transcription
P: Jane Turriff
T: O, O Antonio
FL: Oh, oh Antonio, he went away
S: Voice and electric organ.
NEFA
1994.041.07 Transcription
P: Jane Turriff
T: When You Were Sweet Sixteen
FL: When first I saw the starlight in your eyes
S: Voice and electric organ. Vocalizes as an instrumental in
the song.
NEFA
1994.041.08 Transcription
P: Jane Turriff
T: The Banks o Reid Roses
FL: When I was a young girl I heard ma mammie say
S: Voice and electric organ.
NEFA
1994.041.09 Transcription
P:
Jane Turriff
T: Silver Tassie
FL: Come bring tae me a pint o wine
S: Voice and electric organ. [Side A/B switch in middle.]
NEFA
1994.041.10 Transcription
P: Jane Turriff
T: The Laird o Drum
FL: She can neither read nor can she write, nor mak a cup of
tea-o
S: Voice and electric organ.
NEFA
1994.041.11 Transcription
P: Jane Turriff
T: My Heather Belle
FL: Oh I went on a trip tae the Hielans
S: Voice and electric organ.
NEFA
1994.041.12 Transcription
P:
Jane Turriff
T: Jealous Heart
FL: Jealous heart, oh jealous heart keep beatin
S: Voice and electric organ. This is not an old one (Jimmy Rogers,
country).
NEFA
1994.041.13 Transcription
P:
Jane Turriff
T: Among my Souvenirs
FL: There's nothing left for me
S: Voice and electric organ. Followed by Why are You Lonely
(Have you no baby, have you no home?). When she is in the mood she
could keep going all night. Some days she is not in the mood though.
NEFA
1994.041.14 Transcription
P: Jane Turriff
T: Udny, Bonnie Udny
FL: Oh Udny, bonnie Udny, ye staun whaur ye shine
S: Voice and electric organ. Beautiful to her. She would like
to go see Udny sometime. She likes to please folk with her singing.
She is away in another world. Grand-daughter loves it.
NEFA
1994.041.15 Transcription
P: Jane Turriff
T: The Gallowa Hills and how to sing
it
S: She demonstrates
how to sing the end like a piper.
NEFA
1994.041.16 Transcription
P: Jane Turriff
T: The Gallowa Hills
FL: Oh the Gallowa hills are covered wi broom, heather bells
and sweet Caledoon
S: Voice and electric organ. That's a a good going song.
NEFA
1994.041.17 Transcription
P: Jane Turriff
T: The Tarves Rant
FL: ...I'll tell ye all a story withoot a word o a lee
S: To the tune of Come a' Ye Tramps an Hawkers. Voice and electric
organ. [She vocalizes for much of this.] That was her father's song.
She used to listen to him singing this. They would get down the
fiddle and she would play the piano. It was beautiful and the house
was full of music. People would come in aboot and they would enjoy
the music at a concert in the house. There was the coal man, farm
servants, a school teacher from Aberdeen. She misses all that now.
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