Doos o' Dunbennan, The

DESCRIPTION: Doves of Dunbennan, crows of Cairnie, rooks of Rathven, .... The list continues but the alliteration is dropped: "The creeshy shankers [Greig/Duncan8: stocking-knitters] o' Fyvie"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1914 (Greig/Duncan8)
KEYWORDS: nonballad bird worker
FOUND IN: Britain(Scotland(Aber))
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Greig/Duncan8 1645, "The Doos o' Dunbennan" (1 text)
Roud #13056
NOTES [24 words]: The places named are Aberdeenshire parishes (Cairnie, Forgue, Drumblade, Auchterless and Fyvie) or towns (Dunbennan, Rathven and Inverkeithny). - BS
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