In all you folks who talked on the 1880s and earlier Scottish songs were quite brand new songs. but in the 1950s and 60s in Scots songs and singers and writers were passings of old tunes from other songs from Britain and sometimes the USA. Here are some Scots songs that were only written in the 1950s. And the 1960s that might have first come to fame from other songs from the USA. Like The Northern Lights of Old Aberdeen and one song called The Wild Mountain Thyme (Will You Go Lassie Go). The latter was written in 1957 by Francis Mcpeke who learned it from a tune from earlier in the 19th century the tune he heard it from was a song called I'm Sad and I'm Lonely a song I think was written in 1918 by Carl Sandberg while the song The Northern Lights Of Aberdeen was written by Mary Webb in 1952. In the Royal Blind School where I went to my teacher knew a lot of Scots songs that were only written in the 1950s and with the others from earlier the folks at school sang them for the Burns suppers and other Scottish events. After leaving school I went to England but after 102 I went back to my home in Edinburgh. I got a new home and there I met my friend Martin and we formed a group called Braveheart and we sang and played a lot of Scottish songs. The songs Martin would sing were some of the songs from the 17th to the 19th century that were new songs in Scotland but he would sometimes sing songs that were written in the 1950s all because of school. In the time after Braveheart broke up my friend went to England to live a full life. I now spend a lot of my time reviewing folk songs from all over the world including Scotland. Another thing talking about the 1950s was the folk revival that was what Scots singers came back to power songs from the USA and other countries got songwriters from Scotland would meet up with Alan Lomax back then and sometimes these songs would be written with new words. Lomax went to Scotland in the 1950s and the early 1960s and he would meet the writers and this was what started the folk revival. I say this now quite a lot when I review songs. From Joe