Wi' Ma Big Kilmarnock Bonnet. from ploo Watch Video

⏲ Duration: 3 min 7 sec
✓ Published: 17-Jan-2016

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A traditional song from my hometown on the west coast of Scotland.nnCommentarynThe ballad was published by the Poet's Box, 224 Overgate, Dundee. The reference to a railway line into Glasgow dates this ballad to 1831 at the earliest.nThis ballad is based around a common subject in Scottish writing in the eighteenth and especially nineteenth centuries, the idea that cities were dangerous and immoral places compared to the countryside. This theme was used, often humorously, by the famous Ayrshire w