W. B. OLSON wrote:
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> > Would anyone be able to tell me what the title "Weary Pund o' Tow" means?
> > Its the title of a slow air from Gow's 3rd Repository. A pity that
> > apparently no one knows anymore the answer to Jack's question about the title
> > "Cameron's Got His Wife Back Again"-- I'll bet it was a good story once.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Andrew Kuntz
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> There's another song that's related to "Weary Pund o' Tow". It's called
> "Wary Bachelors" in Jean Thomas's, 'Devil's Ditties', 1931.
>
> The 3rd and 4th verses closely parallel verses in "Weary Pund" (SMM
> #350). 3rd and 4th verses:
>
> I bought my wife ten pound of flax
> As good as ever growed
> And out of that she hackled me
> One single pound of tow.
>
> Beware of a pound of tow
> Before it is begun
> I am afraid my wife will end her life
> Before the tow is spun.
>
> Bruce Olson
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Closely related to the last above is "The Pound of Tow" in W. H.
Logan's 'A Pedlar's Pack of Ballads and Songs', pp. 377-9, Edinburgh,
1869 (reprinted Detroit, 1968)
Bruce Olson
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