Jeannie's Bawbee (Your Plack and My Plack)

DESCRIPTION: "Your plack and my plack (x3), And Je(a)nnie's bawbee." "We'll put them in the pint stoup, Pint stoup, pint stoup, We'll put them in the pint stoup, And join all three." "And that was all my Jenny had... was a bawbee."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1776 (Herd)
KEYWORDS: money nonballad
FOUND IN: Britain(Scotland(Aber))
REFERENCES (3 citations):
Greig/Duncan8 1873, "Jeannie's Bawbee" (1 text, 1 tune)
Montgomerie/Montgomerie-ScottishNurseryRhymes 67, "(Your plack and my plack)" (1 text)
ADDITIONAL: David Herd, editor, Ancient and Modern Scottish Songs, Heroic Ballads, etc. (Edinburgh, 1870 (reprint of 1776)), Vol II, p. 204, "Jenny's Bawbie"
Roud #13579
NOTES [51 words]: Here's at least one case where the song surviving to be recorded in Greig/Duncan8 reaches beyond a Boswell rewrite. This is not at all [Alexander Boswell], Songs Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect (Edinburgh, 1803 ("Digitized by Google")), pp. 8-10, "Jenny's Bawbee" ("I met four chaps yon birks amang") - BS
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