Perley Hare - The Banks of the Clyde

Recorded at the 1962 Miramichi Folk Song Festival.

This song is sung a cappella. This song is about a young woman, Jean (who is later referred to as Jennie), and her young man, Jordie, who is going to fight for his Queen. He travels to Egypt taking a lock of his lover s hair with him. He is killed by an enemy bullet which drives Jennie s lock of hair into his heart. The Clyde is a famous river in Scotland on the banks of which these two lovers part.

Perley Hare's version of the song does contain the words the Scotch brigade. This song appears elsewhere in the Manny collection as (098-04). At one point, the recording stops mid-song and starts over from the beginning again.