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Thread #61358   Message #3854314
Posted By: Gallus Moll
10-May-17 - 06:57 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Mistress (Nancy Nicolson)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Mistress (Nancy Nicolson)
University of California Santa Barbara (Barbera?) is featuring one of Nancy's songs a week on Saturday (evening?) on a radio programme - not sure which one, possibly 'they sent a Wumman' which is the title of her 75th birthday book of her life and songs that Edinburgh Folk Club / Paddy Bort (sadly since deceased) organised for last Autumn.

I probably have The Mistress either printed or recorded or both, first heard it in Stirling Uni Halls of Residence not long after Nancy composed it, way back when we used to attend the Heritage of Scotland Summer Schools with Jean Redpath.

the travel bit will be 'traivel' in dialect

I'll check the rest in a few days - after our 'Commemorating Captain John Lauder' production on Friday! (kinda stressed right now- - - )