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"I Once Loved a Lass" (Roud 154), also known in Scotland as "The False Bride", [1] is a folk song of the British Isles. [2] The age of the song is uncertain, but versions of it date at least as far back as the 1680s. [3] Although widely believed to be a Scottish song, the earliest record of it is from Newcastle upon Tyne. [3]
The Scottish poet and folk-song collector Hamish Henderson was working in the School of Scottish Studies at the university and Redpath took a keen interest in the archive of tapes and discs of music and songs. She learned about 400 songs, together with the oral folklore that went with them.
"Barbara Allen" (Child 84, Roud 54) is a traditional folk song that is popular throughout the English-speaking world and beyond. It tells of how the eponymous character denies a dying man's love, then dies of grief soon after his untimely death.
The Trees They Grow So High" is a Scottish folk song (Roud 31, Laws O35). The song is known by many titles, including "The Trees They Do Grow High", "Daily Growing", "Long A-Growing" and "Lady Mary Ann". A two-verse fragment of the song is found in the Scottish manuscript collection of the 1770s of David Herd.
Scottish folk music (also Scottish traditional music) is a genre of folk music that uses forms that are identified as part of the Scottish musical tradition. There is evidence that there was a flourishing culture of popular music in Scotland during the late Middle Ages, but the only song with a melody to survive from this period is the "Pleugh ...
The traditional singer Harry Cox sang a complete version to Mervyn Plunkett c.1959 which is available on the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library website. [12] The British folk singer Bob Buckle recorded it in 1975. This is now available on Amazon music. Alan Lomax recorded Kentucky singer Jean Ritchie singing a version of this song in 1949 in New ...
The Bonnie Lass o' Fyvie (Roud # 545) is a Scottish folk song about a thwarted romance between a soldier and a woman. Like many folk songs, the authorship is unattributed, there is no strict version of the lyrics, and it is often referred to by its opening line "There once was a troop o' Irish dragoons".
It inspired countless other acts to start swinging folk songs. [29] It was a career-defining song, and she recorded it 14 times in total. Her last recording was a live performance at the Fujitsu-Concord Jazz Festival in Tokyo , on September 28, 1986, with the Scott Hamilton Quintet .