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Series I : Original Collection Materials, 1928 - 1972
Box 1 : Songs, Ballads, Mummers Plays and Shanties
Packet 1 : Scottish and English Songs
Folder 17 : Scottish and English Songs - E

Page 00465 : Betsy Gordon [song text] Mr Alexander Clark (contributor), Charlotte Nichol Rush (contributor), Monquhiter, Near Cumminston

Item Summary

Format

song text

Title

Betsy Gordon

Contributor	Mr Alexander Clark
Index Name	Clark, Alexander

Contributor

Charlotte Nichol Rush

Place

Monquhiter, Near Cumminston

Reference Code

AFC 1972/001, MS p. 00465

Scope and Content Notes

Genre

song

First line

Bonny Betsy Gordon went doon tae the shore

7 stanzas

Contextual Notes

Learned[?] fifty years ago.

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