Recordings & Info 298. Young Peggy
CONTENTS:
1) Alternative Titles
2) Traditional Ballad Index
3) Child Collection Index
ATTACHED PAGES: (see left hand column)
1) Roud No. 3875: Young Peggy (5 Listings)
Alternate Titles
Bonny Peggy Reaching for the High, High Lands
Traditional Ballad Index: Young Peggy [Child 298]
DESCRIPTION: Young Peggy and Jamie have been seen together. When her parents call him rogue and loon, she vows to rest in his arms forever. The lovers agree to run off in the middle of the night. Her father awakes in the night and pursues, but they are already married
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1827 (Kinloch)
KEYWORDS: courting father mother marriage elopement love
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland)
REFERENCES: (4 citations)
Child 298, "Young Peggy" (1 text)
Bronson 298, "Young Peggy" (1 version)
Leach, pp. 683-684, "Young Peggy" (1 text)
DT 298, YNGPEGGY
Roud #3875
NOTES: There are several curious notes about the history of this ballad. Bronson's sole tune is from Christie, and he thinks it fiddled with. Plus Emily Lyle says on p. 225 of _Fairies and Folk: Approaches to the Scottish Ballad Tradition_, (Wissenschaflicher Verlag Trier, 2007) that Child had access to a second text, from the Murison collection, but did not print it. Perhaps this is simply because he was so close to the end of his project that he did not bother, but it makes me wonder if he had additional thoughts on this ballad which he did not record. - RBW
Child Collection- Child Ballad 298: Young Peggy
Child --Artist --Title --Album --Year --Length --Have
298 Bob Blair Bonny Peggy Reaching for the High, High Lands - Scots Songs & Ballads 2000 5:31 Yes
298 Clandestine Peggy To Anybody at All 1999 3:40 Yes
298 Ewan MacColl Young Peggy Blood and Roses - Vol. 3 1982 3:04 Yes
298 Ewan MacColl Young Peggy Saturday Night at the Bull & Mouth 1977 3:29 Yes