Aneath My Apron

DESCRIPTION: The singer's cows go astray on a may morning; she follows and finds a "burr stack to my apron." Now her apron rides high; "there's a braw lad below my apron." Father, mother, friends all ask what she has beneath her apron
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1827 (Kinloch)
KEYWORDS: pregnancy clothes animal
FOUND IN: Britain(Scotland)
REFERENCES (2 citations):
Kinloch-TheBalladBook XXI, pp. 71-72, (no title) (1 text)
Greig/Duncan7 1493, "Under Her Apron" (8 texts plus a single verse on p. 538, 6 tunes)
ST KinBB21 (Full)
Roud #899
NOTES [19 words]: This is another of Kinloch's songs with no source listed and no background information. But it looks traditional. - RBW
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