Mains o' Boyndie

DESCRIPTION: "If ye want to learn high farmin'" come to Mains of Boyndie: it takes 14 pair and some odd-jobmen to work it. The foreman for the day is the first to start. The scythe there slashes more in a day than you'd cut with a sickle in a week.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1901 (Greig/Duncan3)
KEYWORDS: farming work nonballad
FOUND IN: Britain(Scotland(Aber))
REFERENCES (2 citations):
Greig-FolkSongInBuchan-FolkSongOfTheNorthEast "Folk-Song in Buchan," p. 22, ("If ye want to learn high farmin'") (1 text)
Greig/Duncan3 396, "Mains o' Boyndie" (1 text)
Roud #5929
NOTES [53 words]: Here is one song that praises, rather than condemns, the conditions at a farm.
Greig/Duncan3 has a map on p. xxxv, of "places mentioned in songs in volume 3" showing the song number as well as place name; Mains of Boyndie (396) is at coordinate (h6-7,v7) on that map [near Banff, roughly 42 miles NNW of Aberdeen]. - BS
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