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Willie o Couglas Dale or Willie O Douglas Dale is Child ballad 101. [1]
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Willie o Couglas Dale or Willie O Douglas Dale is Child ballad 101. [1]
Willie goes to court, and he and a lady fall in love. When she is pregnant, they flee, but she goes in labor on the way, and gives birth to a son. They go on with the child and reach his father's lands.
This ballad contains elements from "Willie and the Earl Richard's Daughter" and to a lesser extent "Leesome Brand". [2]
Willie O Winsbury is Child Ballad 100. The song, which has numerous variants, is a traditional Scottish ballad that dates from at least 1775, and is known under several other names, including "Johnnie Barbour" and "Lord Thomas of Winesberry".
Billy Blind, Billy Blin, Billy Blynde, Billie Blin, or Belly Blin is an English and Lowland Scottish household spirit, much like a brownie. He appears only in ballads where he frequently advises the characters. It is possible that the character of Billy Blind is a folk memory of the god Woden or Odin from Germanic mythology, in his "more playful aspect" and is speculated to have been the same character as Blind Harie, the "blind man of the game" in Scotland.
"Hind Etin" is a folk ballad existing in several variants.
Prince Robert is Child ballad number 87, existing in several variants, and a murder ballad.
Lord Thomas and Fair Annet is an English folk ballad.
The Gay Goshawk is Child ballad number 96.
Johnie Scot is Child ballad number 99.
"Rose the Red and White Lily" is Child ballad number 103.
Leesome Brand is Child Ballad number 15 and Roud #3301.
The Bent Sae Brown is Child ballad 71.
"The Bonny Hind" is Child ballad number 50.
Fair Janet is Child Ballad number 64.
Willie and Earl Richard's Daughter is Child ballad 102.
"Willie's Lyke-Wake" is Child ballad 25.
Willie and Lady Maisry is Child ballad number 70.
Erlinton is #8 of the Child Ballads, the collection of 305 ballads from England and Scotland, and their American variants, collected by Francis James Child in the late nineteenth century. The collection was published as The English and Scottish Popular Ballads between 1882 and 1898 by Houghton Mifflin in ten volumes and later reissued in a five volume edition.
Clerk Saunders is Child ballad 69. It exists in several variants.
Willie's Fatal Visit is Child ballad 255.
"The King's Dochter Lady Jean" is Child ballad No. 52.
"Eppie Morrie" is one of the Child Ballads, and is of Scottish origin. The author and date are unknown, and as is common with ballads of this type and period several versions exist. It was printed in James Maidment's anthology A North Country Garland in 1824. That version is reprinted in James Kinsley's The Oxford Book of Ballads, 1969. Although the lyrics were transcribed by Francis James Child, it is uncertain if the original melody has been retained. The earliest recordings are from the performances of Jimmy MacBeath in 1951 and later Ewan MacColl, a more recent version by Andrew Calhoun forms part of his border folk song anthology Telfer's Cows.
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