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Series I : Original Collection Materials, 1928 - 1972
Box 4 : Ballads - Index and Texts, Volume 2
Folder 97 : Ballads Index and Texts - Q

Page 07741- 07742 : The Twa Sisters [song text] Mrs Watson Gray (contributor), Corner House, East Street, Fochabers, Scotland

Item Summary

Format

song text

Title

The Twa Sisters

Contributor	Mrs Watson Gray
Index Name	Gray, Mrs Watson

Place

Corner House, East Street, Fochabers, Scotland

Reference Code

AFC 1972/001, MS pp. 07741- 07742

Scope and Content Notes

Genre

song - Child ballad

Alternative title

Binorie

First line

There wis twa sisters lived in a bower

28 stanzas

Type Number

Child 10, The Twa Sisters

Contextual Notes

Partly from her sister Helen Mackaye.

Related Items

Song Text

Binorie [song text] Walter Scott, Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border (1802-03) Mrs Watson Gray (contributor), Corner House, East Street, Fochabers, Scotland, 1931

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