Re: [scots-l] Campaign for Real Ballads (was: Inverness a City...)

2000-12-20 Thread David Francis
Bonnie Jean Cameron was another balladic resident. She's commemorated by a street named Mount Cameron Drive. So what kind of a girl was she? somehow these seem to lend themselves more to limericks. Any offers? If you ask me, I'd say at a guess That the prospect for Inverness Is more in the

[scots-l] auld lang syne uploads

2000-12-20 Thread Rob MacKillop
OK. I've uploaded the earliest known version of Auld Lang Syne, from the Balcarres MS c.1695-1700 as a straight transcription, but also as a basic guitar arrangement in DADGAD tuning. I have also uploaded both the versions in the Scots Musical Museum (numbers 25 and 413) for comparison. And also

Re: [scots-l] Campaign for Real Ballads (was: Inverness a City...)

2000-12-20 Thread Abby Sale
On Tue, 19 Dec 2000 17:38:02 +, David Kilpatrick wrote: Maybe not Bowdlerized, given the number of version of the song - and this episode is mythical one, I think. According to Child, Gilbert Hay, the tenth Earl of Errol, married Catherine Carnegie (Daughter of an Earl, as I recall) on

Re: [scots-l] Re: scots-l-digest V1 #351

2000-12-20 Thread Bruce Olson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 17/12/00 8:33:10 pm, writes: C sharpe is the bloke wot collected Scottish ballads. Oh dear! No "e" for C Sharp, and he never collected Scottish Ballads, but Confined his collecting to the south of England (mostly Somerset) and the southern