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Formatsong text
TitleThe Duke o Athole's Nurse
ContributorA. Robb
Index NameRobb, Alexander
Reference Code AFC 1972/001, MS pp. 04731- 04733

Scope and Content Notes

Genre song - Child ballad
First lineAs I came in by the Duke o Athole's gate

15 stanzas
Type NumberChild 212, The Duke of Athole's Nurse

Contextual Notes

Learned from mother, nearly sixty years ago. Learned songs before she was married over eighty years ago. 'Believes that songs in Buchan district were gained from tradition, not from books'.

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