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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 48 : Miscellaneous Field Typescripts and Manuscripts - E

Page 04842- 04843 : The Fair Floor o Northumberland [song text] Mrs A. Lyall (contributor), Lyne of Scene, Dunecht, Scotland

Item Summary

Format

song text

Title

The Fair Floor o Northumberland

Contributor	Mrs A. Lyall
Index Name	Lyall, Mrs A.

Place

Lyne of Scene, Dunecht, Scotland

Reference Code

AFC 1972/001, MS pp. 04842- 04843

Scope and Content Notes

Genre

song - Child ballad

First line

Ae Scottish prisoner was makin his moan

12 stanzas

Type Number

Child 9, The Fair Flower of Northumberland

Contextual Notes

Mrs Davidson, 1908, Backmain, Skene. 'The same as Mrs Ella Roy, Mrs Lyall's mother ... Learned tunes from mother, about 50 years ago, who learned them from her father and grandfather'.