Origins: Auchinlech

Subject: Auchinlech
From: GUEST,Murray on Saltspring
Date: 18 Jun 05 - 01:55 AM

I found this in the DT. Any info about it would be welcome. Who sent it in? Where's it from? etc.


AUCHINLECH

'Tis as I gaed up by Auchinclech
And doon by Skittlechyachit
There I heard a fiddle play
'Lassie will ye tak it?'
She's up wi' her petticoats
An' I cuist aff my jacket,
An'O what a jolly nicht
At thumpin' at it nakit

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Subject: RE: Auchinlech
From: Malcolm Douglas
Date: 18 Jun 05 - 02:29 AM

I think it's probably taken from a medley of "mouth tunes and nonsense rhymes" sung by Frank Steele on Scottish Tradition 1, Bothy Ballads: Music from the North-East (School of Scottish Studies; originally Tangent, re-issued on cd as Greentrax Recordings CDTRAX 9001).

I wish people would say where they got things from, but some can't remember, and others don't seem to think it matters.

Subject: RE: Origins: Auchinlech
From: Joe Offer
Date: 27 Mar 07 - 04:50 PM

There's no listing for this song in the Roud Index or in the Traditional Ballad Index. Anybody know it, or know about it?
-Joe-

Subject: RE: Origins: Auchinlech
From: Megan L
Date: 27 Mar 07 - 05:00 PM

It would appear to have aberdeenshire connections if i remember rightly there is a remnant of a stone circle near Auchinclech.

Subject: RE: Origins: Auchinlech
From: Jack Campin
Date: 27 Mar 07 - 05:00 PM

It's Auchinleck. An estate in Ayrshire that was the property of James Boswell and his son Sir Alexander Boswell. I would guess that Burns either wrote it or collected it.

Subject: RE: Origins: Auchinlech
From: Peace
Date: 27 Mar 07 - 05:07 PM

'AS I GAED IN BY AUCHINLECH - "an doon by Skittlechyachit - there I heard a fiddle play - Lassie will ye tak it ?" - Mouth-tune frag - Cf BALL O KIRRIEMUIR -- Frank STEELE of Whitehills rec by Hamish Henderson, Banff 1952: TANGENT TNGM-109 1971'

from this site (Peter Kennedy's Folktrax).

Subject: RE: Origins: Auchinlech
From: Peace
Date: 27 Mar 07 - 05:09 PM

Spelling variants will make this one a bear to track.

Subject: RE: Origins: Auchinlech
From: Megan L
Date: 28 Mar 07 - 01:08 PM

from what you found peace it does point to Auchinlech in aberdeenshire.

Although there are many places in scotland begining Auchen or auchin