Jean Redpath_Bonnie Susie Cleland

Jean Redpath, singing "Bonnie Susie Cleland" (Child 65)
写真の城はEdinburgh Castle
赤いドアの建物はJeanRedpathが学んだエディンバラ大学スコットランド研究所の入口

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Scottish
• traditional
• ballad

[handmlove]

Yes, you are right! This is a sad history of women, which is felt by us all thanks to the beautifully sad voice of Jean Redpath.

[astrolog7000]

I've got news for you all. I have read about all of the Child ballads, the five-volume set, over and over again for 35 years. If a woman got pregnant out of wedlock, her own family burned her as a "whore." And if she went to bed with a man before marriage, and they found out about it, hey also burned her at the stake. If she refused to marry whom her parents wanted, they often beat her to death. Women had no rights. Read "Mill o'Teftys Annie."

[ddinnewyork]

I have this song on a recent release by Sheena Wellington (Greentrax 2003). Words are pretty much identical and included on the CD. There are also notes saying that witch burnings certainly occurred in Dundee, including women who had consorted with English soldiers after the Siege of Dundee in 1651. No record of Susie Cleland, though.

[Lisnageeragh]

@CinnAlla Thank you! Google is not always the best though ....I know from seeing some offerings for Irish wordings and contexts. This is a wonderful song so well sung.

Very interested in the Lady Maisry connection.

[CinnAlla]

@kenrubes Indeed it is

[kenrubes]

@CinnAlla I love the Cilla/Artie version...but God is this version beautiful.

[CinnAlla]

@Lisnageeragh A simple answer - google! You'll certainly find the words as sung on a later recording by Cilla Fisher.

[CinnAlla]

@crlcripps As a Taysider myself, I spent some time researching this song. It's a version of Child Ballad 65, known as "Lady Maisry". In fact there appears to be no record of such an incident in Dundee.