Jimmy MacBeath 11/53

Down By The Magdalen Green

Interview with Jimmy MacBeath about Down By The Magdalen Green

My Darling Ploughman Boy

Interview with Jimmy MacBeath about servant girls and ploughboys, kidnapping by landlords, wage slavery, and farm courtships

Bogie's Bonny Belle

Interview with Jimmy MacBeath about bothy courtship and farm laboring conditions

Interview with Jimmy MacBeath about food in the bothies and suing a farmer for wages

Interview with Jimmy MacBeath about feeing, wages, and cruel farmers

Neeps Tae Pluck

Interview with Jimmy MacBeath about writing bothy ballads, the farm servants' union, and the Horseman's Grip and Word

Bonny Portsoy, You're Aa Ma Ain

Interview with Jimmy MacBeath about his grandfather (He Used To Diddle A Lot O Songs)

Awa Tae The Scap In The Mornin / The Fisherman's Wife

Interview with Jimmy MacBeath about the food and games of his childhood

MacCallum's Lament

Grat For Gruel

Interview with Jimmy MacBeath about the story of McCafferty (McCafferty Was A Great Soldier)

McCafferty

Interview with Jimmy MacBeath about the dangers of singing ballad of McCafferty

Interview with Jimmy MacBeath about work he picked up while travelling, his army career, lumbering in Nova Scotia, and women

Jim The Carter Lad

Interview with Jimmy MacBeath about Jim The Carter Lad

Eppie Morrie (fragment)

It Wis Torn, Rippit, Tattered

Interview with Jimmy MacBeath about It Wis Torn, Rippit, Tattered and diddling

Hey Barra Gadgie

Medley of children's songs

Interview with Jimmy MacBeath about his mother's death and the songs sung / Skippin Barfit Through The Heather (fragment)

The Ox And The Fox Dug A Hole For Me

Interview with Jimmy MacBeath about the travelling life and his Army career

The Trooper And The Maid

The Wind Blew The Bonnie Lassie's Plaidie Awa

The Dowie Dens O Yarrow

Interview with Jimmy MacBeath about his travels (I)

Interview with Jimmy MacBeath about his travels (II)

Teribus (fragment)

Interview with Jimmy MacBeath about Teribus and singing for money

The Day We Went To Rothesay-O

Interview with Jimmy MacBeath about travelling with a woman and his trip to the Channel Islands

Interview with Jimmy MacBeath about his family and his early work and travels

Interview with Jimmy MacBeath about Hey Barra Gadgie and Romany cant

Interview with Jimmy MacBeath about the Edinburgh scene of Longfellow, Sir Walter Scott, Dr. Ferguson, Burns, and Tannehill; drinking; and fair days

John Anderson, My Jo, John

Interview with Jimmy MacBeath about being fined five pounds and square dances

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Jimmy MacBeath singing in Alan Lomax's flat

Jimmy MacBeath in Alan Lomax's flat

Jimmy MacBeath smoking in Alan Lomax's flat

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