Killiebank Braes

DESCRIPTION: The singer, out one evening on Killiebank Braes, meets Nancy who was "seeking the kye." She rejects his offer to accompany her, so he "grasped her and kissed her, and squeezed and caressed her." She tells him to leave and "whuppit me lugs weel."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1989 (McMorland/Scott-HerdLaddieOTheGlen)
KEYWORDS: courting rejection violence farming rake
FOUND IN: Britain(Scotland(Bord))
REFERENCES (1 citation):
McMorland/Scott-HerdLaddieOTheGlen, pp. 108-109, 154, "Killiebank Braes" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #21749
File: McSc108

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