on 24/11/2000 5:44 am, Bruce Olson at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ewan MacColl recorded it on an LP, one of 8 recordings of Child
ballads by himself and A. L. Lloyd. Originally on the Riverside
label, then reissued on the Washington label, #723. He implied
his tune was from a fragment from his
I liked this ballad, which I've never heard recorded anywhere, when I saw
the structure of the tune in the Greig-Duncan Collection. Also, I've been
looking and continue to look for any ballads which mention the Borders. So
in this version I've nicked the Laird of Home from one of the variants and
