Bonny Lizie Baillie is
Child ballad 227 (
Roud
The Roud Folk Song Index is a database of around 250,000 references to nearly 25,000 songs collected from oral tradition in the English language from all over the world. It is compiled by Steve Roud (born 1949), a former librarian in the London ...
341).
Some traditions claim it recounts an actual courtship.
Synopsis
Lizie Baillie meets a
Highlander, Duncan Grahame, who courts her. She says she does not know how to work at a farm, and he promises to teach her. She will not have any
Lowlander or
Englishman
The English people are an ethnic group and nation native to England, who speak the English language, a West Germanic language, and share a common history and culture. The English identity is of Anglo-Saxon origin, when they were known in ...
, and though he brought her home, she could not forget him. They run away together, she giving up her silk dress for tartan, and marry. She assures her father that they have married, and leaves her family.
See also
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Glasgow Peggie
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Lizie Lindsay
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Dugall Quin
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The Beggar-Laddie
The Beggar-Laddie is a traditional English ballad existing in several variants. It was collected by Francis James Child as Child ballad 280 (Roud
The Roud Folk Song Index is a database of around 250,000 references to nearly 25,000 songs collec ...
References
External links
''Bonny Lizie Baillie''
with history.
Child Ballads
Year of song missing
Songwriter unknown
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