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Description: | Scottish version of the Tyneside favourite. A note at the head of the song reveals more - 'This is a popular local bridal tune in Scotland; and, like many other fragments of Scottish song, has the Jacobital rose growing among its love sentiments ... It will be seen that the burthen of this song is like our Keel row. It therefore becomes a curious question, which has been copied from the other? The Jacobite ballads relate to events that took place from 1715 to 1745 ... The origin of the Keel row cannot be traced ... [etc]'. The note goes on to say that it was the opinion of song collector and antiquarian John Bell that the Keel row was in fact much older.This song forms part of a selection of songs from 'Selkirk's collection of songs and ballads' currently held by the Border History Museum. The content was selected and edited by local publisher James Selkirk in 1853. The volume contains over 250 pages of songs, with contributions from local favourites such as William Mitford, Robert Emery and John Selkirk. Bound in leather, the collection was published at a time when smaller penny song books, so popular during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century, were fading out and larger bound volumes such as this, which appealed to the middle classes, were becoming increasingly popular.Of the publisher, little is known. - Information at the head of a song by John Selkirk reveals that the publisher of this volume was not the James Selkirk, brother of John, who passed away in 1845, some 8 years before the publication of this collection. A mystery it appears. ; Local songs selected by Tyneside composer James Selkirk | Publisher: | James Selkirk Newcastle upon Tyne | Rights holder: | rights holder : Border History Museum | Subjects: | keelmen & love & mining marriage and courtship & coal trade Love | Temporal: | start=1841;end=1860; | Source: | Folk Archive Resource North East | Identifier: | farne:H2109901 | Go to resource |
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