Recordings & Info 222. Bonny Baby Livingstone
[There is one recording listed in the Child Collection Index.]
CONTENTS:
1) Alternative Titles
2) Traditional Ballad Index
3) Child Collection Index
ATTACHED PAGES: (see left hand column)
1) Roud No. 100: Bonny Baby Livingstone (20 Listings)
Alternate Titles
Bawbie Livingstone
Bonnie Annie Livingstoun
Baby Livingston
Traditional Ballad Index: Bonny Baby Livingston [Child 222]
DESCRIPTION: Glenlion carries Bonny Baby Livingston off to the Highlands. She refuses to show any favor unless she is returned. At Glenlion Castle, Glenlion's sister helps Baby get a letter away to her true love. He arrives with armed men, and carries Baby back home.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1800 (GordonBrown/Rieuwerts)
LONG_DESCRIPTION: Bonny Baby Livingston is carried off to the Highlands by Glenlion. She refuses to smile or speak or show any favor unless she is returned. Glenlion's brother John wants to return her, but Glenlion hopes to win her love. At Glenlion Castle, Glenlion's youngest sister helps Baby get a letter away to her true love Johnny at Dundee. He arrives with armed men, and carries Baby back home.
KEYWORDS: love abduction rescue family
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland(Aber,Bord))
REFERENCES: (10 citations)
Child 222, "Bonnie Baby Livingston" (5 texts, 1 tune) {Bronson's [#1]}
Bronson 222, "Bonnie Baby Livingston" (1 version+1 in addenda)
GordonBrown/Rieuwerts, pp. 238-248, "Bonny Baby Livingston" (2 parallel texts)
GlenbuchatBallads, pp. 168-172, "Baby Livingston" (1 text)
GreigDuncan6 1264, "Bawbie Livingstone" (3 texts, 1 tune)
Lyle-Crawfurd2 111, "Bonnie Annie Livingstoun" (1 text)
Leach, pp. 579-583, "Bonny Baby Livingston" (1 text)
OBB 147, "Baby Livingston" (1 text)
DBuchan 24, "Bonny Baby Livingston" (1 text)
DT, BABLIVST*
Roud #100
Child Ballad Collection- Child Ballad 222: Bonny Baby Livingston
Child --Artist --Title --Album --Year --Length --Have
222 John Strachan Bonny Baby Livingston Hamish Henderson Collects - Songs, Ballads and a Story from the School of Scottish Studies Archives 2005 :39 Yes