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Series I : Original Collection Materials, 1928 - 1972
Box 2 : Miscellaneous Notes, Lectures, Words, Music and Correspondence
Packet 2 : Miscellaneous Field Typescripts and Manuscripts
Folder 53 : Miscellaneous Field Typescripts and Manuscripts - J

Page 05561- 05565 : The Lass of Roch Royal [song text] Cruickshank, MS Miss J. Cruickshank (contributor), Ardshean, Dufftown

Item Summary

Format

song text

Title

The Lass of Roch Royal

Contributor

Miss J. Cruickshank

Place

Ardshean, Dufftown

Source Document

Cruickshank MS Bibliography

Reference Code

AFC 1972/001, MS pp. 05561- 05565

Scope and Content Notes

Genre

song - Child ballad

Alternative title

Annie of Lochryan

First line

O wha will shoe my bonnie foot

Includes various handwritten bibliographic notes.

29 stanzas

Type Number

Child 76, The Lass of Roch Royal

Contextual Notes

'A Manuscript written down by aunt from dictation of an old woman. Miss Cruickshank about eighty years of age, aunt died 40 years ago at age of 70. Ballad written long before her death' [passage about dictation partially obscured].

Miss Cruickshank now at the Dulaig, Granton on Spey.