Jimmy MacBeath
About the artist
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 Randall" (Child Ballad 12) from his mother. At the age of 13 he started work as a live-in farm hand at Deskford.
Top songs
- Hey Barra Gadgie
- MacPherson's Lament
- McCafferty
- Come All Ye Tramps and Hawkers
- Tramps And Hawkers
- The Barnyards o' Delgaty
- The Trooper and the Maid
- Hieland Rory
- Drumdelgie
- Come All Ye Tramps & Hawkers
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- The Bonnie Lass O' Fyvie
- Bound To Be a Row
- Nicky Tams
- The Cuckoo's Nest
- John Anderson, My Jo
- Neeps Tae Pluck
- Come A' Ye Tramps An'Hawkers
- The Jolly Carter Lad
- The Bold English Navvy
- Bogie's Bonny Belle
- Come all You Tramps and Hawkers
- Down by the Magdalene Green
- Mormond Braes
- Whistle Ower The Lave O't
- Johnny McIndoe
- Airlin's Fine Braes
- The Threed O Blue Song (Interview)
- I'm a Stranger in This Country
- The Gallant Forty-Twa
- The Auld Quarry Knowe
- Bonny Portsoy, You're aa Ma Ain (Interview & Story)
- The Muckin O Geordie's Byre
- The Trooper & the Maid
- Pirns O Thread An Needles An Packets O Preens (Interview)
- I'd Get Shot (Interview)
- You Canna Put It On To Sandy
- The Muckin' O Geordie's Byre
- Grat for Gruel
- The Gallant Forty Twa
- The Moss O Burreldale
- Fined Five Pounds (Interview)
- The Wind Blew The Bonnie Lassie's Plaidie Awa'
- McCafferty was a great soldier
- I Wasn't So Far Advanced As Get Tied Up (Interview)
- McPherson's Rant
- McCafferty Was a Great Soldier (Interview)
- Wild Rover No More
- Ye Canna Pit It Oan Tae Sandy
- It Always Beats Up The Ten Minutes Yet (Interview)
- A Dash Good Drink From the Farm Servants (Interview)
- A dash good drink from the farm servants
- The Moos O Burreldale
- Fined five pounds
- The Keach In The Creel
- The Wind Blew the Lassie's Plaidie Awa
- The Dowie Dens O' Yarrow (Child No. 214)
- A threed of blue song
- Too Verocious, Like They Were Hot in the Blood (Interview)
- It Always Beats Up the Ten Minutes Yet
- My Darling Ploughman Boy
- Ye Canna Pit It on Tae Sandy
- Gruel
- I wasn't so far advanced as get tied up
- Pirns o thread an needles an packets o preens
- I'd Get Shot
- Tramps and Hawkers (Previously Unreleased Version)
- The Broom O' the Cowdenknowes
- The Dowie Dens O Yarrow
- The Merchant And the Beggar Maid
- Bonny Portsoy, you're aa ma ain
- The Dowie Dens O' Yarrow
- Too verocious, like they were hot in the blood
- Toorna Ma Goon
- The Highlandman's Ball
- Pittenweem Jo
- The Moss O' Burredale
- The Muckin' O Geordie'S Byere
- The Broom O'The Cowdenknowes
- The Wind That Blew the Bonnie Lassie's Plaidie Awa'
- The Banks of Inverurie
- Arlin's Fine Braes
- Moss o' Burreldale
- The Muckin' O' Geordie's Byre
- Hielan' Rory
- Van Dieman's Land
- It Wis Torn, Rippit, Tattered
- He widna wint his gruel
- The Boston Smuggler
- The Cow Wi' the Iron Tail
- Tramps And Hawkers (performance version)
- Bogie's Bonnie Belle
- Ythanside
- Come A' Ye Tramps and Hawkers
- The Forfar Soldier
- Jim The Carter Lad
- The Day We Went To Rothesay-Oh
- Mormond Braes (I)
- Mormond Braes (II)
- Gallant Forty-Twa
- The Forfar Sodger (The Forfar Soldier)
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