Waddin o McPhee, The

DESCRIPTION: "At mony sprees I've been, but the best I've ever seen" is this wedding. Everyone got drunk, including the minister. Food beyond counting "but the bridegroom and the bride were cremated side by side High up on the hill on Ben Lomond."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1973 (Willie Scott SA1973.025)
KEYWORDS: wedding drink food humorous parody husband wife clergy
FOUND IN: Britain(Scotland(Bord))
REFERENCES (2 citations):
McMorland/Scott-HerdLaddieOTheGlen, pp. 93, 153, "The Waddin o McPhee" (1 text)
ADDITIONAL: Willie Scott, "Wedding o' MacPhee," School of Scottish Studies Archive SA1973.025,Tobar an Dualchais/Kist o Riches accessed 14 September 2013 from http://www.tobarandualchais.co.uk/en/fullrecord/89862/1
Roud #21762
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. ""Loch Lomond" (tune, per McMorland/Scott-HerdLaddieOTheGlen)
NOTES [24 words]: McMorland/Scott-HerdLaddieOTheGlen: "One of the many parodies of the very familiar Bonnie Banks of Loch Lomond, sung to the standard tune...." - BS
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File: McSc093

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