Ye Boys o Callieburn
Shepheard, Spiers & Watson: On Autumn Harvest ah011: Old Songs & Bothy Ballads 8: The Little Ball of Yarn Live from the Fife Traditional Singing Festival May 2011. The small farming community of Callieburn is in the hills a few miles north of Campbeltown and the song tells of emigration from an area that suffered hardship in the 1830s and 1840s - especially during the hungry 40s when the West Highlands had a famine almost as severe as that in Ireland. Pete (lead vocal) with Tom (fiddle and vocal) and Arthur (whistle and vocal)
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