> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nigel Gatherer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: 14 August 2001 22:22
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [scots-l] Bessie Bell and Mary Gray
>
>
> David Kilpatrick wrote:
>
> > There seem to be just about zero real songs about the place - it gets
> > a namecheck in 'The Runaway Bride', and 'We'll a' tae Kelso go'.
>
> There's "The Wife o' Kelso" but that may be simply a local variant of a
> widely known tune (there was a Dundee version of that song, and if I
> remember correctly at least one English version).
If it's the song I'm thinking of, the English version is called "Marrow
Bones"
and there's also an Irish version called "The Old Woman of Wexford". (But
it's
probably Scottish originally. <g>)
Ted
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