Glasgow Peggie or Glasgow Peggy is
Child ballad 228 (
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 ...
95), existing in several variants.
Synopsis
A Highlander comes to steal Peggie. In most variants, her father (and in some, her mother), declare that he might steal their animals, but not their daughter. He carries her off anyway.
A few variants end there.
Some also include either her parents or a local earl regretting that he got away with it.
Peggie laments their harsh conditions. The Highlander assures her, or shows her, that he has plenty of property, and is, indeed, a lord (often the lord of
Skye), and makes her his lady. Some variants explicitly include that he is richer than her parents.
See also
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Bonny Lizie Baillie
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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 ...
External links
''Glasgow Peggie''
Child Ballads
Year of song unknown
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