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Rab Ravlin the Weaver

Mitchell Library, Glasgow Collection

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Rab Ravlin the Weaver

"Rab Ravlin The Weaver", a song preserved in a scrapbook entitled Old Glasgow Street Songs etc, 1850 which is held at the Mitchell Library.

This song sympathises with the plight of Rab Ravlin, who had a particulary lazy, dirty, flea-infested, untidy and drunken wife. "O Lord, keep me frae sic anither!"

Reference: GC 398.5 GLA

Reproduced with the permission of Glasgow City Council, Libraries Information and Learning

Keywords:
children, drinking, folks songs, housewives, housework, lyrics, marriage, Old Glasgow Street Songs etc, 1850, personal hygeine, poetry, poverty, Rab Ravlin The Weaver, street songs, weavers, women



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