True Love of Mine- Christina Roberston (Aber) 1880 Carpenter
(VWML Song Index SN24452) Carpenter Collection 04816
R. Matteson 2018]
True Love of Mine- sung by Mrs. Mary Stewart Robertson of New Deer, learned from Christina Stewart Robertson 50 years ago.
Come a' you young maids that's sittin' by me,
Let every rose grow merry in thyme,
Ye'll buy tae me a white holland shirt,
An saw [sow] it a' up wi' oot[] needle work,
Afore ye be a true lover of mine.
Ye'll wash it up in yonder well
Where water ne'er sprung nor dew ne'er fell.
An' ye'll dry it on yonder thorn
The bush that was rotten before Adam wis born.
Ye'll buy tae me an acre o' land
Atwen the saut water and the sea sand,
Ye'll plow it up wi' ae ram's horn
An saw [sow] it a' doon wi' a pill o' corn.
An' ye'll shear it doon wi' a peacock's feather,
An' ye'll mak it weel up wi' the sting o' an adder [tongue of an adder]
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Robertson, Mary Stewart (p.00199)
Alternative Names: Mrs Geo Robertson (p.08695)
Date of Birth: c.1871 1
Date of Death: 7 February 1941 1
Place of Death: 23 The Crescent, New Deer, Aberdeenshire 1
Mother: Margaret Stewart, nee Hutchison 1
Father: Donald Stewart 1, General dealer 1
Spouse: George Robertson 1
Addresses: 6 Auchreddie Road, New Deer, Scotland (p.04388)
Notes: Daughter of Donald Stewart, 'The Piper'. (p.04606)
Granddaughter of Mrs Mary McPhe Stewart. (p.04650)
Daughter of Margaret Hutchison Stewart, Cooper [sic] Angus. (p.05403)
Carpenter later described how he met a couple who, on the basis of their repertoire, would seem to be George and Mary Stewart Robertson. (pp.10330-10331)
Mother lives in The Cabrach. (p.05541)
'Mother was Irish, came from Ireland, Elizabeth Price, married Hutcheson'. (p.00281)
Related to Christine Stewart Robertson. (p.04816)
Mary Stewart Robertson was aged 60 when Carpenter collected songs from her. (p.05403)
References: 1 Death record 1941 New Deer 225/ 10