Farewell to Tarwathie

Farewell to Tarwathie (Fareweel Tae Tarwathie, Roud number 2562) is a folk song written by George Scroggie in Aberdeenshire, Scotland around 1850.[1] The piece is part of the collection The Peasant's Lyre, preserved in the Library of Congress, published in 1857 in Aberdeen, in which the poem Farewell to Tarwathie appears with 16 stanzas.[2]

Recordings

• 1966, Gordon McIntyre, A Wench, a Whale and a Pint of Good Ale (album)^[citation needed]
• 1970, Judy Collins on the album Whales and Nightingales.^[citation needed]
• 1971, Ewan MacColl sang the song on The Critics Group album As We Were A-Sailing ^[citation needed]
• 1973 Fungus (band) – Farewell To Tarwathie^[citation needed]
• 1975, Liam Clancy – Farewell To Tarwathie (album), Plainsong Records – PS 1001, Canada[3]

• 2008, "Fareweel Tae Tarwathie" by Bounding Main released on their 2008 album Going Overboard. [4]

References

1. "The incredible, evocative sound of sea shanties from the icy waters of Greenland and the Northwest Passage". Classic FM. Retrieved 2024-12-07.
2. George Scroggie, The Peasant's Lyre, A Collection of Miscellaneous Poems (Strichen, Aberdeenshire, printed by William Bennett, 1857, p. 73). Re-typed by Dwight Fay Rettie.
3. "Fareweel Tae Tarwathie". Retrieved 2024-12-17.
4. Fareweel Tae Tarwathie (28 September 2019). "Bounding Main". Bounding Main. Retrieved 2024-02-29.