[Kelso]
And the other two or three occasions on which the entire town appears to
have burned down - but no songs. I can't remember if the next fire was
in the very late 1700s, but for whatever reason, most of the town centre
is circa 1790-1810 and whatever they rebuilt in the 1600s either
Where is Rizzio's lute? Is it in Scotland? Did James Oswald know
about this instrument when he attributed pieces he 'wrote' for the
wire-strung guittar to Rizzio? Because - it's possible that if Rizzio
did play a chitarra he might actually have written them.
You then have the problem of
Jack Campin wrote:
I have a pencil copy somewhere of a broadside from 1789 which is a rhymed
catalogue of Edinburgh prostitutes who would be available at that year's
Kelso Races
As usual, the local lasses just aren't up to it...
But I wonder if they grabbed their Edinburgh rivals in the
The Wife o' Kelso
(there was a Dundee version of that song
the English version is called Marrow Bones
and there's also an Irish version called The Old Woman of Wexford
I was always told that the original of The Old Woman of Mabou (Cape
Breton) was the Wexford tune, but now I know there's more to
David Kilpatrick wrote:
...I wonder if they grabbed their Edinburgh rivals in the privy and
cut their hair off, they way they do today? There is nothing Kelso
girls like less than a pretty face, unless it's long blond hair. The
town is notorious for any girl who looks half decent getting
