Lady Ogalbie- Strachen (OK-ON) pre1925 Moores
[From Ballads and Folk-Songs from the Southwest; the Moores, 1964.
R. Matteson 2015]
Lady Ogalbie, sung by Mrs. Mary Strachen of Tulsa who was born in Scotland. She came to Oklahoma in 1925 from Ontario, Canada, where she had lived since she was a little girl.
It fell on a day and a bonny summer day,
When corn was green and Yellow,
There arose a great argument
Between ArgYle and Airlie.
Argyle had raised a hundred men,
A hundred men and so many
And he is awa' by the back of Dunkeld
To plunder the house of Airlie.
Lady Ogalbie looked out of her bower window,
And Oh, but she looked weary!
For there she spied the great Argyle
Coming to plunder the house of Airlie.
"Come down the stairs, Lady Ogalbie," he cried,
"Come down and kiss me fairly."
"I wouldna' kiss you, Proud Argyle,
Though you shouldna' leave a stanning stone in Airlie."
"Oh, hush your child, Lady Ogalbie," he cried,
And tell me where's your dowry."
"I cannot still it unless I come down myself,
And I will na' say where's the dowry."
He hath taken her by the middle sa' small,
And Oh, but she looked weary!
For he has stabbed her dear little babe
And plundered the house of Airlie.
"If my good lord were at home with me
Instead of Prince Charley,
Neither you nor any other lord
Durst set a foot on Airlie."