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Thread #59716 Message #953921
Posted By: Malcolm Douglas
16-May-03 - 02:23 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Alan MacLean aka The Ministers Son
Subject: RE: LYR REQ: Alan MacLean aka The Ministers Son
Number 2511 in the Roud Folk Song Index; also known as The Aulton College Hall, under which title it appears in Christie's Traditional Ballad Airs (II, 1881, pp. 184-5). Rather popular in the early years of the 20th century, when Gavin Grieg and James Duncan found 18 or so sets in Aberdeenshire. MacColl published two versions; one from Willie Mathieson (Scotland Sings, 1953) and one from Charlotte Higgins (Travellers' Songs from England and Scotland, 1977). I don't know which, if either, of these he recorded. They both begin I was born in Cullen.