Jack Campin wrote:
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>
> 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
[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
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> Thanks to all who responded with such great information to my queary
> regarding the "Bessie Bell/Mary Gray" tune. What a rich offering! Thanks,
> list.
>
> Regards,
> Andrew
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Thanks to all who responded with such great information to my queary
regarding the "Bessie Bell/Mary Gray" tune. What a rich offering! Thanks,
list.
Regards,
Andrew
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> -Original Message-
> From: Nigel Gatherer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: 14 August 2001 22:22
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [scots-l] Bessie Bell and Mary Gray
>
>
> David Kilpatrick wrote:
>
> > There seem to be just about zero real song
Nigel Gatherer wrote:
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> David Kilpatrick wrote:
>
> > There seem to be just about zero real songs about the place - it gets
> > a namecheck in 'The Runaway Bride', and 'We'll a' tae Kelso go'.
>
> There's "The Wife o' Kelso" but that may be simply a local variant of a
> widely known tune (the
David Kilpatrick wrote:
> There seem to be just about zero real songs about the place - it gets
> a namecheck in 'The Runaway Bride', and 'We'll a' tae Kelso go'.
There's "The Wife o' Kelso" but that may be simply a local variant of a
widely known tune (there was a Dundee version of that song, a
Nigel Gatherer wrote:
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(Bessie Bell and Mary Gray story)
>
> The ballad became popular after the girls' death, and was adapted by
> Allan Ramsay, John Leyden (who worked with Walter Scott, and moved the
> scene of the story to the Borders) and James Duff of Logiealmond.
Just wanted to make sho
Andrew said:
> ...A new question about the tune below, printed in Aird and McGlashan
> (and probably other collections). Does anyone know who the Misses
> Bell and Gray were? Regards, Andrew Kuntz
Yes, they were real people who lived and died not far from where I am
now (Perthshire).
In April
