“The Bonnie Wee Lassie Fae Gouroch”

Description

Piper MacFarlane will wed the daughter of a grocer in Gouroch. He's "popped her the question and bought her the ring." Everywhere the couple go she causes a stir among men. In "a first-class hotel" they show they are not city folk.

Notes

Gourock is about 25 miles west of Glasgow at the mouth of the Clyde. - BS

Recordings

  • Belle Stewart, "The Bonnie Wee Lassie Fae Gouroch" (on Voice01)

References

  1. Roud #5212
  2. BI, RcTBWLFG

About

Author: unknown
Earliest date: 1976 (recording, Belle Stewart)
Keywords: courting fight humorous
Found in: Britain(Scotland(Aber))