Recordings & Info 228. Glasgow Peggie
[There are no known traditional US or Canadian versions.]
CONTENTS:
1) Alternative Titles
2) Traditional Ballad Index
3) Child Collection Index
ATTACHED PAGES: (see left hand column)
1) Roud No. 95: Glasgow Peggie (63 Listings)
Alternate Titles
Highland Lads
The Hieland Laddie
Hielan' Lads Are Brisk and Braw
Kilboggie/Kilbogie
Glesga Peggy
Traditional Ballad Index: Glasgow Peggy [Child 228]
DESCRIPTION: A Highland man comes to Glasgow and falls in love with Peggy. Her parents declare themselves against his suit; they will guard her more than all their other property. But she chooses to go with him, and he reveals that he is a rich nobleman
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1827 (Kinloch)
KEYWORDS: courting disguise
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland(Aber,Bord))
REFERENCES: (7 citations)
Child 228, "Glasgow Peggy" (7 texts, 1 tune)
Bronson 228, "Glasgow Peggy" (14 versions+1 in addenda)
Greig #44, p. 1, "Glasgow Peggy" (1 text)
GreigDuncan4 850, "Glasgow Peggy" (12 texts, 8 tunes)
Leach, pp. 588-589, "Glasgow Peggy" (1 text)
Montgomerie-ScottishNR 160, "(Oh Sandy is a Highland lad)" (1 short text)
DT 228, GLASGPEG*
Roud #95
RECORDINGS:
Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger, "Glasgow Peggy" (on SCMacCollSeeger01) {cf. Bronson's #2, taken from a different recording and with a few lyric variations but mostly the same}
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Bonny Lizie Baillie" [Child 227] (theme)
cf. "The Blaeberry Courtship" [Laws N19] (plot)
cf. "MacDonald of the Isles" (tune and general plot)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
The Hieland Laddie
Hielan' Lads Are Brisk and Braw
NOTES: Roud lumps this with "MacDonald of the Isles." That there is some sort of interdependence is clear. But they seem to be distinct songs; see the notes to that song. - (BS, RBW)
Child Collection- Child Ballad 228: Glasgow Peggie
Child --Artist --Title --Album --Year --Length --Have
228 Alex Campbell Glesca Peggy Alex Campbell Sampler 1969 No
228 Alex Campbell Glesca Peggy Been on the Road So Long - The Anthology 2005 2:53 Yes
228 Alex Campbell Glesga Peggy Borderlands - The Best of Scottish Folk 2006 2:52 Yes
228 Alex Stephens Glasgow Peggie The James Madison Carpenter Collection 1927-1955 No
228 Almeda Riddle Peggy of Glasgow Ballads and Hymns from the Ozarks 1972 No
228 An Lár Glasgow Peggy Chloe's Passion 2002 3:04 Yes
228 Avalon Rising Glasgow Peggy Storming Heaven 2004 4:31 Yes
228 Bell Duncan Glasgow Peggy The James Madison Carpenter Collection 1927-1955 No
228 Darby O'Gill Glasgow Peggy. Waitin' for a Ride 2004 3:57 Yes
228 Distant Oaks Glasgow Peggy + Red-Haired Boy Dance to Bright Steel 2004 4:51 Yes
228 Ellen Rettie Glasgow Peggie The James Madison Carpenter Collection 1927-1955 No
228 Ewan MacColl Glasgow Peggie The English and Scottish Popular Ballads (The Child Ballads) - Vol. 2 1956 2:59 Yes
228 Ewan MacColl Glasgow Peggy The English and Scottish Popular Ballads (Child Ballads) - Vol. 2 1964 2:57 Yes
228 Ewan MacColl Glasgow Peggy The English and Scottish Popular Ballads (The Child Ballads) - Vol. 3 [Reissue] 196? No
228 Ewan MacColl & Peggy Seeger Glasgow Peggy Classic Scots Ballads 1997 3:11 Yes
228 Golden Bough Kilbogie Songs of Scotland [Golden Bough] 2003 2:25 Yes
228 Hamish Imlach Kilbogie The Definitive Transatlantic Collection 1997 3:57 Yes
228 Hamish Imlach Kilbogie Old Rarity 1971 3:53 Yes
228 Jean Redpath Kilbogie Now and Then 1999 2:22 Yes
228 Jean Redpath Kilbogie Frae My Ain Countrie 1973 2:26 Yes
228 Mrs Buchan Bull Glasgow Peggy The James Madison Carpenter Collection 1927-1955 No
228 Mrs Rettie Glasgow Peggie The James Madison Carpenter Collection 1927-1955 No
228 Mrs Thompson Glasgow Peggie (1) The James Madison Carpenter Collection 1927-1955 No
228 Mrs Thompson Glasgow Peggie (2) The James Madison Carpenter Collection 1927-1955 No
228 Old Blind Dogs Kilbogie Close to the Bone 1997 3:00 Yes
228 Old Blind Dogs Kilbogie The Collection [Old Blind Dogs] 2009 2:58 Yes
228 Owen Hand Kilbogie Something New + I Loved a Lass 1999 3:22 Yes
228 Ray & Archie Fisher Kilbogie Traditional & New Songs from Scotland 2002 3:01 Yes
228 Ray & Archie Fisher Kilbogie Troubadours of British Folk, Vol. 1: Unearthing the Tradition 1995 3:06 Yes
228 Ray & Archie Fisher Kilbogie Far Over the Forth 1961 2:57 Yes
228 Ray & Archie Fisher Kilbogie Bonny Lass Come O'er the Burn 1962 3:04 Yes
228 Silly Wizard Glasgow Peggy Caledonia's Hardy Sons 1978 3:21 Yes
228 The Iron Horse Glasgow Peggy Naciones Celtas I 1997 2:28 Yes
228 The Iron Horse Glasgow Peggy Five Hands High 1994 2:30 Yes
228 The Iron Horse Glasgow Peggy New Celtic Dimensions - A Collection of Some of Todays Best New Sounds in Celtic Music 1998 No