“When I Was Noo But Sweet Sixteen (The Bothy Lads, The Plooboy Lads)”
Description
Singer complains that the ploughboys are "false and deceiving-o They say all and the gang awa'." At sixteen she was "just in blooming." At nineteen she's home with her baby with no idea where the father may be.
Recordings
- Jeannie Robertson, "When I Was Noo But Sweet Sixteen" (on Voice10)
References
- DT, PLOOLAD*
- Roud #5138
- BI, RcWIWNBS