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Jimmy MacBeath (1894 - 1972) was an itinerant worker and singer of Bothy Ballads from the north east of Scotland. He was a source of traditional songs for singers of the mid 20th century Folk Revival in Great Britain. Jimmy MacBeath (pronounced the same as Macbeth) was born to a family of Scottish Travellers in the fishing village of Portsoy, Banffshire, Scotland. He learned songs such as "Lord Ra...read more

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Top Tracks of Jimmy MacBeath

Hey Barra Gadgie
MacPherson's Lament
McCafferty
Come All Ye Tramps & Hawkers
The Trooper and the Maid
Tramps And Hawkers
Hieland Rory
The Barnyards o' Delgaty
Come All Ye Tramps and Hawkers
Drumdelgie
Nicky Tams
John Anderson, My Jo
Neeps Tae Pluck
The Bonnie Lass O' Fyvie
The Cuckoo's Nest
The Jolly Carter Lad
Bogie's Bonny Belle
Bound To Be a Row
Mormond Braes
Down by the Magdalene Green
Come all You Tramps and Hawkers
Gruel
The Bold English Navvy
Airlin's Fine Braes
Mac Pherson's Lament
Whistle Ower The Lave O't
Johnny McIndoe
The Gallant Forty-Twa
The Threed O Blue Song (Interview)
Come A' Ye Tramps An'Hawkers
The Auld Quarry Knowe
Bonny Portsoy, You're aa Ma Ain (Interview & Story)
I'm a Stranger in This Country
The Muckin O Geordie's Byre
The Gallant Forty Twa
I'd Get Shot (Interview)
Pirns O Thread An Needles An Packets O Preens (Interview)
McCafferty was a great soldier
The Muckin' O Geordie's Byre
The Moss O Burreldale
Grat for Gruel
I Wasn't So Far Advanced As Get Tied Up (Interview)
A dash good drink from the farm servants
Fined Five Pounds (Interview)
Fined five pounds
McCafferty Was a Great Soldier (Interview)
The Wind Blew the Lassie's Plaidie Awa
The Keach In The Creel
It Always Beats Up The Ten Minutes Yet (Interview)
A Dash Good Drink From the Farm Servants (Interview)
The Moos O Burreldale
A threed of blue song
It Always Beats Up the Ten Minutes Yet
My Darling Ploughman Boy
Wild Rover No More
You Canna Put It On To Sandy
McPherson's Rant
The Trooper & the Maid
I wasn't so far advanced as get tied up
The Dowie Dens O' Yarrow (Child No. 214)
Too Verocious, Like They Were Hot in the Blood (Interview)
I'd Get Shot
Pirns o thread an needles an packets o preens
The Broom O' the Cowdenknowes
Tramps and Hawkers (Previously Unreleased Version)
The Dowie Dens O Yarrow
The Dowie Dens O' Yarrow
Bonny Portsoy, you're aa ma ain
Too verocious, like they were hot in the blood
Ye Canna Pit It Oan Tae Sandy
Come All Ye Tramps And Hawkers (Elgin, 1951)
The Wind Blew The Bonnie Lassie's Plaidie Awa'
Ye Canna Pit It on Tae Sandy
The Merchant And the Beggar Maid
The Wind That Blew the Bonnie Lassie's Plaidie Awa'
The Muckin' O' Geordie's Byre
The Highlandman's Ball
Moss o' Burreldale
Toorna Ma Goon
It Wis Torn, Rippit, Tattered
The Muckin' O Geordie'S Byere
Pittenweem Jo
The Moss O' Burredale
He widna wint his gruel
Tramps And Hawkers (performance version)
Come A' Ye Tramps and Hawkers
The Forfar Soldier
Van Dieman's Land
The Boston Smuggler
Jim The Carter Lad
The Day We Went To Rothesay-Oh
Gallant Forty-Twa
John Anderson, My Joe
Hielan' Rory
The Banks of Inverurie
Bogie's Bonnie Belle
Down By The Magdalen Green
The Trooper Lad
Teribus
Mc Cafferty
It Wis A Slave Drivery
The Barnyards of Delgaty
Singin Along At Their Plough
Tramps & Hawkers
The Horseman's Grip And Word
Toorn / A Ma Goon
Nickie Tams
Come A' Ye Tramps An Hawkers
The Moss o' Burreldales
Mormond Braes (II)
The Broom O'The Cowdenknowes
Ah Likit Ma Mother
He Used To Diddle aLot Of Songs
From The Top Of The Deck
The Wind Blew The Bonnie Lassie's Plaidie Away
Medley of children's songs
Erin Go Bragh
10 Bonny Portsoy, You're AA Ma Ain
Awa Tae The Scap In The Mornin / The Fisherman's Wife
Too Verocious,Like They Were Hot In The Blood
Mormond Braes (I)
He Winda Wint His Gruel
Outside, On the Safe Side - Interview
The Barnyards O' Delgaty (Jimmy McBeath)
Awa Tae The Scap In The Mornin, The Fisherman's Wife
The Ox And The Fox Dug A Hole For Me
Cuckoo's Nest (Scotland)
MacCallum's Lament
Gallant Forty Twa
The Voice Of The People, Volume 5: Come All My Lads That Follow The Plough
Aus meinem Kopf
Marnin' Fair
Three Score & Ten: A Voice To The People
Hieland Rory - Jimmy MacBeath
Arlin's Fine Braes
He Widn't Wint His Gruel
Ythanside
The Threed O Blue Song
Toorn-A Ma Goon
Come All Ye Tramps & Hawkers - Jimmy MacBeath
MacPherson's Lament - Jimmy MacBeath
Drumdelgie (beginning)
Interview with Jimmy MacBeath about his family and Shakespeare's Macbeth
Van Diemen's Land (Come All You Gallant Poachers) (fragment)
Mormond Braes (fragment)
The Forfar Sodger (The Forfar Soldier)
MacPherson's Rant
The Wind Blew The Bonnie Lassie's Plaidie Awa
The Wind Blew the Bonnie Lassie’s Plaid Awa’
Dark-Eyed Lover
It Wis a Slave Drivery (Interview)
Bonny Portsoy, You're AA Ma Ai
It Always Beats Up The Ten Min
A dash good drink from the far
It Wis Torn, Rippit, Tattered (Song Fragment and Interview)
The Horseman's Grip and Word (Ritual Initiation Story)
Jimmy McBeath / The Barnyards o' Delgaty
The Muckin O Geordie´s Byre - Scots Song
Jimmy McBeath / Nicky Tams
It Always Beats Up the Ten Minutes Yet [#]
A threed of blue song (interview)
Bonny Portsoy, you're aa ma ain (interview and story)
Eppie Morrie
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