Butcher Boy- Adam Christie (Kinc) 1963 Henderson
[Single first stanza, standard lyrics. From Edinburgh; School of Scottish Studies. SA SA1963.82.B19
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R. Matteson 2016]
The Butcher Boy- sung by Adam Christie (1901-1985) of Stonehaven, Kincardineshire. Recorded by Hamish Henderson in 1963. Adam Christie was born and brought up in Stonehaven. He was a farm worker and a fisherman.
My father gave me good learnin',
Good learnin' he gave to me,
For he sent me to the butcher's shop
A butcher's boy to be.