Traditional Appalachian ballad "The Scotland Man" performed by George Landers (c.1960s)[RESTORED]

This is a video of the Appalachian singer and banjo player George Landers (1886 - 1969) of Marshall, Madison County, North Carolina performing a variant of "The Scotland Man" (Child 68), more commonly known as "Young Hunting" or "Love Henry". See the right hand side of the video for information about the song and this version of it.
As well as adding the lyrics and description, I added color to this video and restored the audio. Here is the original video: • The Scotland Man (Chil...
This video comes from a 1972 documentary called "The End of an Old Song", which can be watched here: • Video
Here is a playlist of different traditional versions of this ballad, including a complete high quality audio recording of George Landers singing this song: • Video
One of these recordings is of Linnie Landers, a relative of George Landers from whom Cecil Sharp and Maud Karpeles collected the "Scotland Man" in 1916. Her 1950 recording can be heard here: • The Scotland Man (Chil...
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This video comes from a 1972 documentary called "The End of an Old Song", which can be watched here:

[@davidkellett4794]

Thanks again for all the work you're doing.

[@tullochgorum6323]

Appalachian music and dance has strong links to the Scottish tradition. From memory, around half the original settlers were Scots and they brought their music and dance with them. It's morphed into a distinctive tradition of its own, but the DNA is still there. There were also a significant number of Scots-Irish.

[@sandramorey2529]

Great! I used to sing this at the Renaissance Faires & Dickens Fair back in "the day". Good old Love Henry or Young Hunting Child #68.

[@sandramorey2529]

Thank You so much for this. And for the lyrics and for the side notes. Many years ago I sang Love Henry which is a Child Ballad.

[@Liederfuchs]

Ho, it looks quite surreal with added colour. Thank you for doing this. It's precious.

[@lgwhittaker]

That was awesome. He was the the first thumb lead banjo player I heard and I fell in love with the style. That song has so many lyrics that are in Dick Justice’s Henry Lee. I love finding those connection.