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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 21 : Scottish and English Songs - I

Page 00972 : Mistress Brown [song text] Jeanie Campbell (contributor), Balgaveny House, Forgue

Item Summary

Format

song text

Title

Mistress Brown

Contributor	Jeanie Campbell
Index Name	Campbell, Jeannie

Place

Balgaveny House, Forgue

Reference Code

AFC 1972/001, MS p. 00972

Scope and Content Notes

Genre

song - singing game

First line

Mistress Brown went to town

Used as a clapping game.

5 stanzas

Contextual Notes

Learned at school.

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