“The Bonnie Wee Tramping Lass”

Description

The singer passed the carter's mill on a Saturday night and meets "a bonnie wee tramping lass", She explains her job "winding hanks of yarn." They discuss love and go home together. They marry happily and now have three children.

Notes

Hall, notes to Voice10, describes this as an "innocent courtship" leading to a "fortunate and happy marriage." - BS

Recordings

  • Willie Scott, "The Bonnie Wee Tramping Lass" (on Voice10)

References

  1. Roud #5129
  2. BI, RcBWTrLa

About

Author: unknown
Earliest date: 1967 (recording, Willie Scott)
Found in: Britain(Scotland(Bord))