Song of the Gillie More

DESCRIPTION: Scottish and Soviet farmers and workers share much. "Jocks and Ivans by the score Swappin yarns"; "Gar it ring frae shore tae shore, Leith tae Kiev -- Don tae Gairloch"
AUTHOR: Hamish Henderson (1948) (source: McMorland/Scott-HerdLaddieOTheGlen)
EARLIEST DATE: 1989 (McMorland/Scott-HerdLaddieOTheGlen)
KEYWORDS: farming work nonballad Russia Scotland
FOUND IN: Britain(Scotland(Bord))
REFERENCES (1 citation):
McMorland/Scott-HerdLaddieOTheGlen, pp. 143, 156, "Song of the Gillie More" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #21759
NOTES [36 words]: Ironic that Kiev is in Ukraine, not Russia, and wants no part of Russia. (And it's now generally called by the Ukrainian name "Kyev," not "Kiev.") There may be more Communists in Scotland now than are left in Kyev. - RBW
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