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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 55 : Miscellaneous Field Typescripts and Manuscripts - L

Page 05708- 05710 : Queen Eleanor's Confession [song text] Mrs James Pirie (contributor), Kirkside, Alvah, Banff, Scotland

Item Summary

Format

song text

Title

Queen Eleanor's Confession

Contributor	Mrs James Pirie
Index Name	Pirie, Mrs James

Place

Kirkside, Alvah, Banff, Scotland

Reference Code

AFC 1972/001, MS pp. 05708- 05710

Scope and Content Notes

Genre

song - Child ballad

First line

The queen's fa'en sick an very sick

Bibliographic note refers to Douce Ballads.

18 stanzas

Type Number

Child 156, Queen Eleanor's Confession

Contextual Notes

Contributor aged 87. Learned from mother and aunt, Jane Duquid, Loanhead, Alvah. Never learned from printed version. Some songs learned from Ellen Chalmers, Cairnhill, Alvah.