Recordings and Info No. 33 Kempy Kay
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CONTENTS
1) Alternative Titles
2) Traditional Ballad Index
3) Child Ballad Collection
ATTACHED PAGES: (see left hand column)
1) Roud Number 32; (20 listings) Kempy Kay
Alternative Titles
King Knapperty
Knip Knap
The Slattern
Traditional Ballad Index: Kempy Kay [Child 33]
DESCRIPTION: A hideous maiden is courted by a deformed suitor. The grotesqueness of each is described in Rabelaisian detail. They exchange disgusting gifts, and the match is made.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1827 (Kinloch)
KEYWORDS: courting humorous marriage gift
FOUND IN: Britain(Scotland(Aber,Bord))
REFERENCES (6 citations):
Child 33, "Kempy Kay" (7 texts)
Bronson 33, "Kempy Kay" (2 versions)
Kinloch-BBook XI, pp. 40-44, "Kempy Kaye" (1 text)
GreigDuncan7 1505, "Kempy Kay" (2 texts plus a single verse on p. 541)
DBuchan 46, "Kempy Kay" (1 text)
DT 33, KEMPYKAY
Roud #32
ALTERNATE TITLES:
King Knapperty
Knip Knap
The Slattern
Child Ballad Collection 033: Kempy Kay
Child No.--- Artist--- Title--- Album-- Year-- Length-- Have Rec
033 Jock Tamson's Bairns Kempy Kaye A' Jock Tamson's Bairns [Jock Tamson's Bairns + the Lasses Fashion] 1996 3:46 Yes
033 Jock Tamson's Bairns Kempy Kaye Three Score and Ten - A Voice to the People 2009 3:49 Yes
033 Martin Carthy King Knapperty Crown of Horn 1976 3:35 Yes