Sandy Grant

DESCRIPTION: "Sandy Grant and (his/her) cousin's son" and some others "had some fun" but it turned out badly. They stay up late drinking and singing, rouse the ire of the townfolk; in the end they are referred to the police
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1872 (broadside Bodleian, 2806 c.11(219)
KEYWORDS: drink music police
FOUND IN: Britain(Scotland(Aber))
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Greig/Duncan8 1770, "Sandy Grant" (1 fragment, 1 tune)
Roud #13003
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, 2806 c.11(219), "Sandy Grant" ("Her nainsel' cam' frae the Hielan' hill"), Poet's Box (Glasgow), 1872
File: GrD81770

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