Douglas Tragedy- W. Farquhar (Aber) 1908 Greig F
[Single stanza with music; from The Greig-Duncan Folk Song Collection. edited by Patrick Shuldham-Shaw, Emily B Lyle and Katherine Campbell. The informant also sang for James Madison Carpenter about 1931.
R. Matteson 2018]
Douglas Tragedy- sung by William Farquhar (1868-1936), Bruxie, Old Deer, Aberdeenshire,
He's placed Lady Margret on a milk-white steed,
Himself on a dapple grey,
With a bugle horn down by his side,
And slowly they both rode away.