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The Cathcart Courtship

Mitchell Library, Glasgow Collection

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The Cathcart Courtship

"The Cathcart Courtship", a song which has been preserved in a scrapbook entitled Old Glasgow Street Songs etc, 1850 which is held at the Mitchell Library.

This song describes an encounter with a couple and a jealous love-rival in the Cathcart Parish Church's kirkyard.

Reference: GC 398.5 GLA

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

Keywords:
Cathcart Parish Church, courting, fighting, fights, folk songs, jealousy, lyrics, Old Glasgow Street Songs etc, 1850, poetry, River Cart, street songs, The Cathcart Courtship, White Cart Water, women



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