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.