Hingin' on the Nail

DESCRIPTION: The singer, forty-four, has spent her life "hinging on the nail." She thinks she's not too bad looking though "the shadow o' my former sel'." She doesn't care about looks or brains "if only he would act his part, and ease me aff the nail"
AUTHOR: Alexander G Murdoch (1843-1891) (source: Greig-FolkSongInBuchan-FolkSongOfTheNorthEast #160)
EARLIEST DATE: 1877 (Murdoch's _The Laird's Lykewake and Other Poems_, according to Greig-FolkSongInBuchan-FolkSongOfTheNorthEast #160 and Greig/Duncan7)
KEYWORDS: oldmaid
FOUND IN: Britain(Scotland(Aber))
REFERENCES (2 citations):
Greig-FolkSongInBuchan-FolkSongOfTheNorthEast #89, p. 2, "Hingin' on the Nail" (1 text)
Greig/Duncan7 1380, "Hingin' on the Nail" (2 texts, 1 tune)
Roud #6271
File: GrD71380

Go to the Ballad Search form
Go to the Ballad Index Song List

Go to the Ballad Index Instructions
Go to the Ballad Index Bibliography or Discography