The Barras is a Scottish song written in 1963 by a Scottish folk singer called Jim Mclean. The tune is the same tune as the US folk song Darling Nelly Gray. Jim wrote this song to Andy Stewart who first sung the song in his sing out in 1963. One of the songs that my friend Martin did a great recording of this. Other songs set to this tune are Maggie Maggie May the English folk song and the Bob Wills Taxes Playboys 1950 song Faded Love.