I Never Knew- Mrs. Milne (Aber) 1907 Greig B

I Never Knew- Mrs. Milne (Aber) 1907 Greig B

[My title. Single stanza with music from Greig-Duncan Collection, Volume 6, pp.266-268edited by Patrick N. Shuldham-Shaw, Emily B. Lyle, Edinburgh Mercat Press 1995 (version B). 

R. Matteson 2017]



I Never Knew He was Going to Leave Me- from Mrs. Milne of Aberdeenshire, Scotland in (Oct) 1907. Collector: Gavin Greig,

I never knew he was going to leave me,
Until last night when he came in;
And when he sat down and told me,
Twas then my sorrows they did begin.