Further research

A wide variety of Scots Song resources is now available online. 

  • Kist o Riches / Tobar an Dualchais [Tip: hold Ctrl and click a link to open it in a new tab. (Hide tip)]  is home to over 38,000 digitised field recordings in Scots and Gaelic mainly from the archives of the School of Scottish Studies at the University of Edinburgh.
  • The Scots Language Centre website has a Scots Song section.

The Scots Language Centre is an online resource with the purpose of promoting Scots. The resource expands on this unit and includes many audio and video samples, as well as links to online collections of Scots song. It also has a dedicated Scots Song Resources page with an expanded selection of links to visit.

  • Sangstories is an informative resource for song texts and song histories collated by Linda McVicar on behalf of Sangschule, a folk choir from West Lothian.

  • Hamish Henderson, 'At the Foot o Yon Excellin Brae: The Language of Scots Folksong', in Scotland and the Lowland Tongue, ed. J. Derrick McClure, Aberdeen University Press, 1983. 
  • The Scots Language Centre provides an overview of the wide variety of ‘Scots Song Resources’ now accessible online.

12.6 Scots song in the 21st century