False Knight- Nellie MacGregor(Perth) 1954 Henderson
[One stanza fragment with music from Scottish Studies - Volumes 9-10 - page 12, 1965. Their notes follow.
R. Matteson 2018]
This fragment, which was recorded in Aberdeen in 1954 from a city-dwelling tinker woman, was the first indication we received that this rare ballad was still in circulation in Scotland.
False Knight- sung by Nellie MacGregor of Perthshire in 1954. Pentatonic V. A two-phrase tune, Form AA. Collected by Hamlish Henderson.
'What's upon your back?" said the false knight upon the road.
'My bannocks an' my books," said the wee boy, and still he stood.