Archie o Cawfield, also known as "The Bold Archer", "The Bold Prisoner", or "The Escape of Old John Webb"", is an Anglo-Scottish border ballad , number...
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Ballads Sir Aldingar Alison and Willie Allison Gross Andrew Lammie Archie o Cawfield Kinmont Willie Auld Matrons Babylon The Baffled Knight The Bailiff's...
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raid to break someone out of prison, the others being Jock o' the Side and Archie o' Cawfield. It shares several motifs with these other prison-break ballads...
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Ballads Sir Aldingar Alison and Willie Allison Gross Andrew Lammie Archie o Cawfield Kinmont Willie Auld Matrons Babylon The Baffled Knight The Bailiff's...
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Ballads Sir Aldingar Alison and Willie Allison Gross Andrew Lammie Archie o Cawfield Kinmont Willie Auld Matrons Babylon The Baffled Knight The Bailiff's...
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things o' me, Blaw, blaw, blaw winds, blaw! It's right I ask as mony o thee, And the wind has blawin' my plaid awa'. My father he ask'd me an acre o' land...
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"The Bonnie Earl o' Moray" (Child 181, Roud 334) is a popular Scottish ballad, which may date from as early as the 17th century. The ballad touches on...
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nameless grave When I've hopes for eternity And I'll pray that the faith o' a dying thief. Be given through grace tae me Yest're'en the Queen had fower...
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Ballads Sir Aldingar Alison and Willie Allison Gross Andrew Lammie Archie o Cawfield Kinmont Willie Auld Matrons Babylon The Baffled Knight The Bailiff's...
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Andrew Lammie (redirect from Mill o' Tifty)
"Andrew Lammie", also known as Mill o' Tifty or Mill o' Tifty's Annie, is a traditional Scottish ballad, set in Aberdeenshire, and catalogued as Child...
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Ballads Sir Aldingar Alison and Willie Allison Gross Andrew Lammie Archie o Cawfield Kinmont Willie Auld Matrons Babylon The Baffled Knight The Bailiff's...
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harme." O loth, o loth, The Scots lords were To weet their cork-heild schoone; Bot lang owre a' the play wer playd, Thair hats they swam aboone. O lang,...
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' When he was dead, and laid in grave, Then death came creeping to she: 'O mother, mother, make my bed, For his death hath quite undone me. 'A hard-hearted...
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Ballads Sir Aldingar Alison and Willie Allison Gross Andrew Lammie Archie o Cawfield Kinmont Willie Auld Matrons Babylon The Baffled Knight The Bailiff's...
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of his recordings. Folk singer Peggy Seeger recorded a version entitled "O The Wind and Rain" on her album Bring Me Home, and another version entitled...
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castle's walls, break down the prison door, and rescue John. 188 Archie o Cawfield Archie is imprisoned at Dumfries for raiding. His two brothers and eight...
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it vulnerable to the storm that same year. "When the Yowes o' Gowrie come to land, The Day o' Judgment's near at hand" The "Ewes of Gowrie" are two boulders...
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Ballads Sir Aldingar Alison and Willie Allison Gross Andrew Lammie Archie o Cawfield Kinmont Willie Auld Matrons Babylon The Baffled Knight The Bailiff's...
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tobarandualchais.co.uk (Reel-to-reel). Scotland: Tobar an Dualchais/Kist o' Riches. Retrieved 3 March 2017. "Roud Folksong Index (S243414) - "Lord Daniel""...
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Ballads Sir Aldingar Alison and Willie Allison Gross Andrew Lammie Archie o Cawfield Kinmont Willie Auld Matrons Babylon The Baffled Knight The Bailiff's...
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Ballads Sir Aldingar Alison and Willie Allison Gross Andrew Lammie Archie o Cawfield Kinmont Willie Auld Matrons Babylon The Baffled Knight The Bailiff's...
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Willie O Winsbury is Child Ballad 100 (Roud 64). The song, of which there are many variants, is a traditional Scottish ballad that dates from at least...
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played by Bing Crosby in the rat pack film Robin and the 7 Hoods. Robert O. Cornthwaite played Allan A. Dale, an accomplice to the supervillain The Archer...
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ballad.[citation needed] Hamish MacCunn's 1887 concert overture The Ship o' the Fiend is based on the ballad. Atkinson and Roud 2014, p. 206. Atkinson...
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Edom o Gordon or Captain Car (Child #178, Roud #80) is a traditional Scottish ballad that exists in several versions. The ballad recounts the gruesome...
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Lady Isabel and the Elf Knight (redirect from The Water o Wearie's Well)
Seven king's-daughters I've drownd there, In the water o Wearie's Well, And I'll make you the eight o them, And ring the common bell She asks him for a kiss...
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Ballads Sir Aldingar Alison and Willie Allison Gross Andrew Lammie Archie o Cawfield Kinmont Willie Auld Matrons Babylon The Baffled Knight The Bailiff's...
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Ballads Sir Aldingar Alison and Willie Allison Gross Andrew Lammie Archie o Cawfield Kinmont Willie Auld Matrons Babylon The Baffled Knight The Bailiff's...
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on his white hause-bane, And I'll pike out his bonny blue een; Wi ae lock o his gowden hair We'll theek our nest when it grows bare. ‘Mony a one for him...
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Ballads Sir Aldingar Alison and Willie Allison Gross Andrew Lammie Archie o Cawfield Kinmont Willie Auld Matrons Babylon The Baffled Knight The Bailiff's...
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