Recordings & Info 212. The Duke of Athole's Nurse
CONTENTS:
1) Alternative Titles
2) Traditional Ballad Index
3) Child Ballad Collection
ATTACHED PAGES: (see left hand column)
1) Roud No. 3393: The Duke of Athole's Nurse (43 Listings)
Alternative Titles
The Lord at the Bakin
Traditional Ballad Index: Duke of Athole's Nurse, The [Child 212]
DESCRIPTION: The Duke's (?) new leman bids his nurse (and former leman) bring her love a message. The nurse gathers her (seven) brothers to kill him instead. He asks the tavern's landlady to hide him; she disguises him as a baking maid. The brothers fail to kill him
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1803 (Skene ms.)
KEYWORDS: love abandonment brother disguise cross-dressing escape
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland(Aber),England(North))
REFERENCES: (7 citations)
Child 212, "The Duke of Athole's Nurse" (6 texts)
Bronson 212, "The Duke of Athole's Nurse" (9 versions)
GlenbuchatBallads, pp. 158-160, "The Lord at the Bakin" (1 text)
Greig #84, pp. 1-2, "The Duke of Athole's Nurse"; Greig #86, p. 2, "Duke o' Athole's Nurse" (2 texts plus 1 fragment)
GreigDuncan1 160, "The Duke of Athole's Nurse" (10 texts, 6 tunes) {A=Bronson's #9, B=#4, C=#6, E=#7, F=#2}
Leach, pp. 566-568, "The Duke of Athole's Nurse" (1 text)
DT 212, DUKATHOL*
Roud #3393
NOTES: The opening of this song is a bit confused. Whose love is the new leman? The Duke's? The nurse's former love? Someone else's? It hardly affects the plot, but the pronouns are confusing. - RBW
Child Collection- Child Ballad 212: The Duke of Athole’s Nurse
Child-- Artist-- Title-- Album-- Year-- Length-- Have
212 Alex Robb The Duke of Athole's Nurse The James Madison Carpenter Collection 1927-1955 No
212 Alex Stephens The Duke of Athole's Nurse The James Madison Carpenter Collection 1927-1955 No
212 Bell Duncan The Duke of Athole's Nurse (1) The James Madison Carpenter Collection 1927-1955 No
212 Bell Duncan The Duke of Athole's Nurse (2) The James Madison Carpenter Collection 1927-1955 No
212 Concerto Caledonia Duke of Athol's March Late Night Sessions - Live at the Edinburgh International Festival 2009 2010 No
212 Elizabeth Robb The Duke of Athole's Nurse The James Madison Carpenter Collection 1927-1955 No
212 Ellen Rettie The Duke of Athole's Nurse (1) The James Madison Carpenter Collection 1927-1955 No
212 Ellen Rettie The Duke of Athole's Nurse (2) The James Madison Carpenter Collection 1927-1955 No
212 Ellen Rettie The Duke of Athole's Nurse (3) The James Madison Carpenter Collection 1927-1955 No
212 Frankie Armstrong Little Duke Arthur's Nurse Songs and Ballads 1975 3:20 Yes
212 John David Vass The Duke of Athole's Nurse (1) The James Madison Carpenter Collection 1927-1955 No
212 John David Vass The Duke of Athole's Nurse (2) The James Madison Carpenter Collection 1927-1955 No
212 John Ross The Duke of Athole's Nurse The James Madison Carpenter Collection 1927-1955 No
212 June Tabor The Duke of Athole's Nurse An Echo of Hooves 2003 4:22 Yes
212 Male Singer The Duke of Athole's Nurse The James Madison Carpenter Collection 1927-1955 No
212 Mara! Little Duke Arthur's Nurse Images 1985 4:34 Yes
212 Unknown Female Singer The Duke of Athole's Nurse The James Madison Carpenter Collection 1927-1955