Recordings & Info 227. Bonny Lizie Baillie
[There are no recordings listed in the Child Collection Index. There are no known US or Canadian versions.]
CONTENTS:
1) Alternative Titles
2) Traditional Ballad Index
ATTACHED PAGES: (see left hand column)
1) Roud No. 341: Bonny Lizie Baillie (15 Listings)
Alternate Titles
Bonnie Lizie Baillie
Elisa Bailly
Traditional Ballad Index: Bonny Lizie Baillie [Child 227]
DESCRIPTION: Lizie goes to Gartartain to visit her sister, and there meets Duncan Grahame. She falls in love, and declares that she will have a Highlander rather than any lowland or English lord. Her family tries and fails to change her mind
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1776 (Herd)
KEYWORDS: love courting family
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland)
REFERENCES: (4 citations)
Child 227, "Bonny Lizie Baillie" (1 text)
Bronson 227, "Bonny Lizie Baillie" (1 version)
Leach, pp. 585-588, "Bonnie Lizie Baillie" (1 text)
DT, LIZBAILI*
Roud #341
BROADSIDES:
NLScotland, Ry.III.a.10(045), "Bonny Lizie Balie," unknown, n.d.
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Glasgow Peggy" [Child 228] (theme)
NOTES: Reportedly based on an actual story, but no real details are forthcoming. The NLScotland notes claim the broadside was printed in 1701, but offers no basis for this. - RBW