Take a trip on Susanne's blue clickie thing above, and you'll learn that Tarwathie was a farm at Mormond Hill. I learned "Farewell tae Tarwathie" from MacColl in 1958. I had sung "Pretty Saro" at a Princess Louise "Ballads and Blues" session one night. MacColl then asked me if I knew there was a whaling song from Aberdeen that also used the tune. When I said I'd not heard it, Ewan sang it for me. In 1959, after returning to the States, I often sang it while sharing the bill at the Exodus in Denver with Judy Collins. I've always sort of figured she picked the song up from me at that time. Her first record did include three songs she had learned from me (or so Jak Holzman told me when he was about to release the album). The text I sang, as I got it from Ewan's singing of it, is exactly as it appears on the site that Susanne's blue clickie thing takes you to. Another song I sang every night during the Exodus gig (it was almost a theme song for me at that time) was one I had learned in England from an early recording of the MacPeakes of Belfast -- a song called "Wild Mountain Tyme."

Sandy (enjoying old memories)