Rachel Workman Macrobert, Lady Macrobert (A Ballad)

Rachel Workman MacRobert, Lady MacRobert(1884 -1954) Lady Rachel MacRobert wis born intae siller Tae American parents, Workman wis their name Her man fin a bairnie, swypt fleers up at Steenywid Mills…his hard wirk and his smeddum brocht fame Chorus: Cromar is a honeypot, ancient and fertile Far fiddlers an fermers an magic combine Thirty younger than Alex, her husband They wad in a Quaker Hoose, peaceful an quate Syne he sailed tae India, she gaed tae Sweden Whyles bidin in Tarland tae rin the estate The pair hid three sons, Alasdair, Roddy, Iain This clippit her wings fur gaun furth an wae-gaun She feted the suffragettes, kept on researchin At Dounside her husband deed, left her alane The laddies wir dweeble fin growin. She foundit A fine Freisiandairy herd, boostin supply Tae gie her loons far richer milk that the ordnar She wis a fine breeder o cattle forbye Alasdair deed in a civil air accident Roddy wis killed in a plane ower Iraq Sax wikks eftir, the third brither, lost ooto Sullam Voe Three brithers in three years fa niver cam back Lady MacRobert noo helped buy a bomber ‘MacRobert's Reply' aa tae gie the Hun Hell Syne helped fund fower Hurricanes, gaen tae the RAF Three named fur her laddies, an ane fur herself Lady MacRobert, a breeder o kye, A geologist, Feminist based in Cromar Philanthropist, luver o Dounside, her hame That helped her tae owercam the cruelty o war The MacRobert Trust keeps her gweed name alive Grants gien taeservices, sea, youth an trainin Tae Tarland, the braid bonnie airt o Cromar Science, fermin, technology an engineerin