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NEFA
1994.057.01 Transcription
P: Gordon Easton
T: About The Dyin Ploughboy
S:
Further discussion about the Dyin Ploughboy (see end of 1994.056).
NEFA
1994.057.02 Transcription
P: Gordon Easton
T: The Dying Ploughboy
FL: The gloamin winds were sighin saft
S: Sings alternate tune for the song.
NEFA
1994.057.03
P: Gordon Easton
T: The
Rowan Tree/ The Auld Hoose/ The Road and the Miles tae Dundee
S: Moothie tunes.
NEFA
1994.057.04
P: Gordon Easton
T: ????/ The Laird o Drumblair
S: Moothie tunes. Stops the second tune as the moothie
does not have the range.
NEFA
1994.057.05
P: Gordon Easton
T: The Laird o Drumblair/
The Deil Amon the Tailors
S: Moothie tunes. Hard tunes to play.
NEFA
1994.057.06
P: Gordon Easton
T: Waltz/ The
Road and the Miles tae Dundee/ The Rowan Tree/ The Aul Hoose
S: Moothie tunes, starting with waltz. Names tunes.
NEFA
1994.057.07-08
P: Gordon
Easton
T: Waltz/ The Cock o the North
S: Tunes
on the trump (Jew's harp).
NEFA
1994.057.09-12 Transcription
P: Gordon Easton
T: Jimmie Raeburn
FL: My name is Jimmie Raeburn, fae Glesgae toon I came
S: First two tracks are false starts. Forgets on last
verse (track 11), restarts entire song (track 12).
NEFA
1994.057.13-15 Transcription
P: Gordon
Easton
T: Drumdelgie
FL: There's a fairmtoon up in Cairnie, that's kent baith
far an wide
S: Bothy song. Goes wrong and starts again (track 14).
NEFA
1994.057.16 Transcription
P: Gordon Easton
T: Intermarrying
S: Intermarrying
within the locality was common.
NEFA
1994.057.17 Transcription
P: Gordon Easton
T: Bogie's Bonnie Belle
FL: Ae market day in Huntly toon
S: Two false starts. Song begins properly at :24.
NEFA
1994.057.18 Transcription
P: Gordon Easton
T: The Muckin o Geordie's Byre
FL: At a lyrical craft upon the hill
S: Bothy song.
NEFA
1994.057.19 Transcription
P: Gordon Easton
T: Awa wi the Rovin Plooboy
FL: Come saddle ti me ma aul grey mare
S: Song with a fine lift, if not the best of a song.
NEFA
1994.057.20 Transcription
P: Gordon Easton
T: Sources for songs
S: GE
was pleased to have met ???. Did not get The Rovin Ploughboy from
John Macdonald. Got many songs from gramophone records, and the
man who brought them around.
NEFA
1994.057.22 Transcription
P: Gordon Easton
T: Age
S: GE
falling to pieces.
NEFA
1994.057.23-25 Transcription
P: Gordon Easton
T: Coortin in the Stable
FL: The nicht wis fine, twis aifter nine
S: Bothy song. Sings under his breath to find key, then
starts. Forgets last verse, re-sings. If you forget a verse in a
competition, you are finished. (Ignore 26.)
NEFA
1994.057.27 Transcription
P: Gordon Easton
T: Bothy songs on cylinder
S: There
were cylinders of bothy songs, including the previous item. GE has
a cylinder player, but no cylinders left. Describes other old things
they used to have in the old house, before the fire. Grandfather
used to use Navy sword to top neeps. Suicide. They got a loan of
cylinders sometimes. Wilie Baxter used to bring around a gramophone
on his motrobike. Andy Robbie sang Coortin in the Stable. Neepering
= community cooperation.
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