Recordings & Info 187. Jock o the Side
CONTENTS:
[There are three recordings of this ballad listed in the Child Collection]
1) Alternative Titles
2) Traditional Ballad Index
3) Child Collection
4) Excerpt from The British Traditional Ballad in North America by Tristram Coffin 1950, from the section A Critical Biographical Study of the Traditional Ballads of North America
ATTACHED PAGES: (see left hand column)
1) Roud No. 82: Jock o the Side (24 Listings)
Alternative Titles
Jock o' the Syde
Traditional Ballad Index: Dick o the Cow [Child 185]
NAME: Jock o the Side [Child 187]
DESCRIPTION: Jock o the Side has been taken prisoner in a raid. His neighbors hope to ransom him, but (Hobie Noble/The Laird's Jock) will free him with five men. They make their way to Jock's prison, break down the doors and perform other feats, and bring Jock away
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1774 (Percy papers)
KEYWORDS: borderballad prisoner escape rescue
FOUND_IN: Britain(England(North),Scotland(Aber))
REFERENCES: (8 citations)
Child 187, "Jock o the Side" (4 texts)
Bronson 187, "Jock o the Side" (4 versions)
Stokoe/Reay, pp. 145-147, "Jock o' the Side" (1 text, 1 tune) {Compare Bronson's #3, a variant of the same tune but with different text}
Friedman, p. 246, "Jock o' the Side" (1 text)
OBB 138, "Jock o' the Side" (1 text)
Warner 191, "Bold Dickie and Bold Archie" (1 text, 1 tune, primarily Child 188 but possibly with elements of 187)
TBB 25, "Jock o' the Side" (1 text)
DT (187/188), JOCKSIDE JOHNWEBB*? BOLDARCH*?
Roud #82
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Hobie Noble" [Child 189] (characters)
cf. "Archie o Cawfield" [Child 188] (plot)
NOTES: Jock o' the Side (Side is a region in Liddesdale) was a well-known thief and raider of the 1560s. - SF
It is interesting to note that (apart from Jock himself), the characters in this drama are completely unfixed; in one version, Robin Hood's companion Much the miller's son is one of the raiders (and not a very bold one). - RBW
Child Collection- Child Ballad 187: Jock o the Side
Child-- Artist-- Title-- Album-- Year-- Length-- Have
187 Ewan MacColl Jock O the Side Scotland 1951, 1953, and 1958 (Lomax T3257) 1951 :15 Yes
187 Ewan MacColl Jock O' the Side Blood and Roses - Vol. 1 1979 6:03 Yes
187 Gordon Mooney The Souters O' Selkirk + Seeking the Galloway + Jock O' The Side O'er the Border - Music of the Scottish Borders played on the Cauld Wind Pipes 1994 3:01 Yes
Excerpt from The British Traditional Ballad in North America
by Tristram Coffin 1950, from the section A Critical Biographical Study of the Traditional Ballads of North America
187. JOCK O THE SIDE
One Text: "Mountain Minstrels of Pennsylvania" 1931
Shoemaker, Mt Mnstly, 238 prints a story outline of this ballad as it was recited in Pennsylvania with a few stanzas recalled. The stanzas compare to Child B, Stanzas I, 11, 12 14, 26 28. The long story is summarized by Child, III, 4767. The plot (Child B) revolves about the rescue of Jock from Newcastle by a handful of men who climb the town wall, enter the jail, kill the porter, and escape, with Jock still in irons, by swimming the Tyne just ahead of the pursuing English.