We hopped back on the bus and sang more regional songs with Tam and Margaret Spiers en route to our next destination. They had selected these highlights for our tour of Buchan and Aberdeenshire. We ended at the Aden Country Park. The farming museum lets you tour an Auld Fairm Toun’.
In this area, the unmarried farm workers lived in the chaumer. Instead of the men being in a separate building as they were in bothies, they slept in lofts built above the animals in the barns and were kept warm by the rising animal heat. The songs that arose in these environments expressed their feelings about their living conditions, the oppressive qualities of the head farmer, or the charms of local lassies.
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