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Thread #69590   Message #1181707
Posted By: Malcolm Douglas
09-May-04 - 02:05 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: roving ploughboy
Subject: RE: lyrics for roving ploughboy
The text Letty posted came from Susanne and Henry's songbook:

The Rovin' Ploughboy. As usual, Susanne has added notes from various sources; Hamish Henderson's comments are particularly informative.

The text there is a transcription from a record made by Iain MacKintosh & Hamish Imlach, which was an arrangement of John MacDonald's set; though for some reason they altered it into the third person. MacDonald's set has been published a number of times, both in print and sound, and is currently the only example from tradition listed in Roud (number 2138). I would expect that Malinky's recording is also an arrangement of it.