Buchan Bobby, The

DESCRIPTION: McQueen, raised in Buchan, courts Nancy who won't have him unless he has a non-farming job. He joins the Aberdeen police. When he returns to marry Nancy he finds she'd wed a farmer. "There are better quines in Aiberdeen, Now she can go to...."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1965 (SCDChapman01)
KEYWORDS: courting infidelity marriage home parting return separation farming police
FOUND IN: Britain(Scotland(Aber))
Roud #15746
RECORDINGS:
Daisy Chapman, "The Buchan Bobby" (on SCDChapman01)
File: RcBucBob

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