US & Canada Versions: 187. Jock o the Side

US & Canada Versions: 187. Jock o the Side

[There is one reported version in Shoemaker's "Mountain Minstrels of Pennsylvania"- 1931. I don't have access to that version yet.]

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Excerpt from The British Traditional Ballad in North America by Tristram Coffin 1950, from the section A Critical Biographical Study of the Traditional Ballads of North America

187. JOCK O THE SIDE

Shoemaker, Mt Mnstly, 238 prints a story outline of this ballad as it was  recited in Pennsylvania with a few stanzas recalled. The stanzas compare to  Child B, Stanzas I, 11, 12 14, 26 28. The long story is summarized by  Child, III, 4767. The plot (Child B) revolves about the rescue of Jock from  Newcastle by a handful of men who climb the town wall, enter the jail, kill the porter, and escape, with Jock still in irons, by swimming the Tyne just  ahead of the pursuing English.