Recordings & Info 226. Lizie Lindsay
CONTENTS:
1) Alternative Titles
2) Traditional Ballad Index
3) Child Collection Index
4) 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
5) Folk Index
ATTACHED PAGES: (see left hand column)
1) Roud No. 94: Lizie Lindsay ( Listings)
Alternate Titles
Sir Donald and Eliza Lindsay
Donald Macdonald
Lord Ronald Macdonald
Leezie Lindsay
Lizzie Lindsay
New Yealand
Donald of the Isles
Bonny Lizie Lindsay
Traditional Ballad Index:226. Lizie Lindsay
NAME: Lizie Lindsay [Child 226]
DESCRIPTION: A young man comes to court Lizie Lindsay, asking her to come to the Highlands with him. Neither she nor her relatives are interested. He then reveals that he is a rich lord (the Lord of the Isles?); she changes her mind
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1796 (Scots Musical Museum)
KEYWORDS: courting
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland(Aber,Bord)) US(Ap,MA,NE,So)
REFERENCES: (11 citations)
Child 226, "Lizie Lindsay" (8 texts, 1 tune) {Bronson's #3}
Bronson 226, "Lizie Lindsay" (9 versions+1 in addenda)
Lyle-Crawfurd1 53, "Sir Donald and Eliza Lindsay" (1 text)
GreigDuncan4 854, "Lizzie Lindsay" (7 texts, 3 tunes)
BarryEckstormSmyth pp. 297-299, "Lizzie Lindsay" (1 text with variants, 1 tune) {Bronson's #6}
Flanders-Ancient3, pp. 269-271, "Lizie Lindsay" (1 text, 1 tune)
JHCoxIIA, #11, pp. 46-47, "Leezie Lindsay" (1 text, 1 tune) {Bronson's #2}
Brewster 20, "Lizie Lindsay" (1 text)
Ford-Vagabond, p. 314, "Leezie Lindsay" (1 short text)
Randolph 29, "New Yealand" (1 fragment)
DT 226, LIZLIND*
Roud #94
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Dugall Quin" [Child 294]
cf. "The Blaeberry Courtship" [Laws N19]
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
Donald Macdonald
Lord Ronald Macdonald
NOTES: (Missing)
NAME: Blaeberry Courtship, The [Laws N19]
DESCRIPTION: A Lowland girl is induced to follow a Highland lad home "to pick blueberries" (and get married). The girl is worn out by the time they reach his home -- only to discover that his poverty is a sham and he is a great lord whom she knew in childhood
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: before 1835 (broadside, Bodleian Johnson Ballads 1570)
KEYWORDS: courting poverty money harvest
FOUND_IN: Canada(Mar) Britain(England(North),Scotland(Aber)) Ireland
REFERENCES: (10 citations)
Laws N19, "The Blaeberry Courtship"
SHenry H193, pp. 487-488, "The Hielan's o' Scotland" (1 text, 1 tune)
Greig #43, pp. 1-2, "The Blaeberry Courtship" (1 text)
GreigDuncan4 852, "The Blaeberry Courtship" (16 texts plus a single verse on p. 561, 11 tunes)
Ord, pp. 190-191, "The Blaeberry Courtship" (1 text)
Stokoe/Reay, pp. 62-63, "The Blaeberries" (1 text, 1 tune)
Mackenzie 18, "The Blaeberry Courtship" (2 texts)
DT 450, BLAEBRRY BLAEBRR2
ADDITIONAL: Alexander Whitelaw, A Book of Scottish Ballads (Glasgow, 1845), pp. 276-278, "The Blaeberries"
Robert Ford, editor, Vagabond Songs and Ballads of Scotland [second series] (Paisley, 1901 ("Digitized by Google")), pp. 77-82, "The Blaeberry Courtship"
Roud #1888
RECORDINGS:
Howard Morry, "The Pride of Glencoe" (on PeacockCDROM) [one verse only]
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Johnson Ballads 1570, "The Blaeberries" or "Highland Laird's Courtship," G Walker (Durham), 1797-1834
NLScotland, RB.m.143(004), "The Blaeberry Courtship," Pos Box (sic.), i.e. Poet's Box (Glasgow), c. 1880
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Lizie Lindsay" [Child 226] (plot)
cf. "Glasgow Peggy" [Child 228] (plot)
cf. "Erin-go-bragh" (tune, per GreigDuncan4)
NOTES: Laws calls this a "modernization of the story" told in "Lizie Lindsay" (Child #226). It is possible that this is technically true -- that is, that "The Blaeberry Courtship" was inspired by the Child Ballad. Certainly a number of scholars (far too many!) have lumped them together. But they are clearly and obviously separate songs, and should be treated as such. In terms of plot, "The Blaeberry Courtship" is nearly as close to "Glasgow Peggy" as to "Lizie Lindsay"; note that the suitor reveals his wealth only *after* the lady comes away with him. - RBW
Child Collection Index- Child Ballad 226: Lizie Lindsay
Child ---Artist Title ---Album ---Year ---Length--- Have
226 Alex Campbell Leezie Lindsay Best Loved Songs of Bonnie Scotland 1963 1:50 Yes
226 Alex Campbell Lezzie Lindsay Favourite Songs of Bonnie Scotland 1965 No
226 Andrew Calhoun & Kat Eggleston Leezie Lindsay First Comes Love 1995 4:57 Yes
226 Arthur Johnstone Leezie Lindsay The Complete Songs of Robert Burns, Vol. 2 1998 1:35 Yes
226 Asonance Krásnou Vysočinou (Leezy Lindsay) Duse Mé Lásky - Scottish and Irish Folk Songs and Ballads 1994 3:13 Yes
226 Asonance Krásnou Vysočinou (Leezy Lindsay) Asonance 1 & 2 - Dva Havrani + Duse Mé Lásky 1995 3:13 Yes
226 Barbary Grant Leezie Lindsey Bonny at Morn 2002 No
226 Barbary Grant Leezie Lindsey Soft Mild Morning 2004 No
226 Bell Duncan Lizzie Lindsay The James Madison Carpenter Collection 1927-1955 No
226 Belle Stewart Leezie Lindsay Queen Among the Heather - Scots Traditional Songs and Ballads 1998 2:18 Yes
226 Braemar Leezy Lindsay Beirt Leaids 2004 No
226 Carl Peterson Leezie Lindsay Scottish Love Songs 2003 No
226 Carl Peterson Leezie Lindsay The Flowers of Scotland 2000 5:18 Yes
226 Carl Peterson Leezie Lindsay I Love the Jewels of Scotland 1990 4:49 Yes
226 Colleen Raney Lizzy Lindsay Lark 2011 No
226 Cromlech Mari Morgan Gwlith Y Bore [Unha Noite Na Eira Do Trigo] 1980 3:33 Yes
226 Cruachan Leezie Lindsay Traditional Music and Song 1987 3:30 Yes
226 Danny Doyle Lizzie Lindsay Showband Legends 2006 No
226 Danny Doyle Lizzie Lindsay Expressions of Danny Doyle 1968 2:34 Yes
226 Danny Doyle Lizzie Lindsay Whiskey on a Sunday 2000 No
226 Danny Doyle Lizzie Lindsay The Classic Collection [Danny Doyle] 2003 No
226 Denis Tracey Lizzie Lindsay No Man's Land 1979 3:01 Yes
226 Dorothy Bavey Lizzie Lindsay Steve Gardham Collection 1970-1982 :44 Yes
226 Eddi Reader Leezie Lindsay Peacetime 2007 4:52 Yes
226 Eddi Reader Leezie Lindsay Eddi Reader Sings the Songs of Robert Burns - Deluxe Edition 2009 4:49 Yes
226 Eddi Reader Leezie Lindsay Transatlantic Sessions 5 Volume 1 2011 No
226 Eddie Furey Leezy Lindsay Scottish Folk Scene 1974 No
226 Fiddlers 3 She Beg She More + Lizzie Lindsay Fiddlers 3 2001 No
226 Finbar & Eddie Furey Leezy Lindsay Finbar & Eddie Furey 1968 3:49 Yes
226 Finbar & Eddie Furey Lizzie Lindsay The Best of Finbar & Eddie Furey 1991 3:55 Yes
226 Finbar & Eddie Furey Leezy Lindsay The Collection 2002 No
226 Finbar & Eddie Furey Leezy Lindsay Irish Folk Favourites 2001 3:52 Yes
226 Florian Hoffmann Lezzie Lindsay Tristans LARP-Liederbuch 2002 2:48 Yes
226 Fyfe Penni Piece Leezie Lindsay Scottish Record Attempt - A Collection of Scottish Folk Songs 2012 No
226 Gaberlunzie Leezie Lindsay Wanderlust 2007 No
226 Golden Bough Lizzie Lindsay + Miss Maule's Waltz Songs of Scotland [Golden Bough] 2003 4:22 Yes
226 Hadrian's Wall Leezie Lindsay Mix (Leezie Lindsay + Mingualay Boat Song + Flower of Scotland) Courtin' in the Kitchen 1998 5:40 Yes
226 Hermes Nye Lizzie Lindsay Ballads Reliques - Early English Ballads from the Percy and Child Collections 1957 2:43 Yes
226 Holly Williams & John Jacobs Come By the Hills + Leezie Lindsay Purple Heather - Traditional Celtic Music 2004 No
226 Hugh Morrison Leezy Lindsay Robert Burns Rocks 2010 No
226 Jennifer Licko Lizzie Lindsay Cave of Gold 1999 2:45 Yes
226 Jim Crawford Leezy Lindsay + Jeely Well Spread + A Rosebud by My Early Walk Matured to Perfection 2004 No
226 Jim O' Donnell Lizzie Lindsey In the Garden Walking 2011 No
226 John & Ena MacDonald Lizzie Lindsay The Roving Ploughboy 1975 No
226 John & Rosy Goacher Lizzie Lindsay Begone Dull Care! 1977 2:58 Yes
226 John Turner Leezie Lindsay Scottish Musical Menagerie 2003 No
226 John Wilson Lizzie Lindsay Leap Year 2008 No
226 Kathryn Tickell Lizzie Lindsay + Tyneside Tunes + Madame Bonaparte The Blair Tapes - Recordings from Blairgowrie Folk Festival 1986-1995 2000 No
226 Killiecrankie Leezie Lindsay + Believe Me If All Those Endearing Young Charms + the Loch Tay Boat Song The Haggis Egg 1994 4:12 Yes
226 Kim Hughes Leezie Lindsay Cattywampus 1998 6:02 Yes
226 Kingdom Leezie Lindsay Tobermory Nights 2004 No
226 Kingdom Leezie Lindsay There Was a Lad - Songs of Burns 2009 No
226 La Nef, Meredith Hall & Matthew White Leezie Lindsay The Battle of Killiecrankie 2007 3:20 Yes
226 Marke Wilde & David Owen Norris Leezie Lindsay Britten - Complete Scottish Songs 2011 2:38 Yes
226 Martin Jones Will Ye Gang to the Hielands, Lizzie Lindsay Dished Up for Piano - Percy Grainger - The Complete Piano Music 2003 No
226 Moira Stern Leezie Lindsay Avalon's Daughter 2004 3:19 Yes
226 Mrs John Baird Lizzie Lindsay The James Madison Carpenter Collection 1927-1955 No
226 Music Box Leezie Lindsey Songs of Sunshine 1972 5:29 Yes
226 New Shilling Leezy Lindsay Live !! 2007 No
226 Noel McLoughlin Lizzy Lindsay 20 Best of Scotland 1995 2:33 Yes
226 Nonesuch Leezy Lindsay Rye Dill Caraway 2008 No
226 Norfolk & Joy Leezie Linzay Scotsounds 1979 3:04 Yes
226 North Sea Gas Leezie Lindsay The Power of Scotland 2003 4:25 Yes
226 Ogham Leezy Lindsay The Aughmore Lassie 1993 3:28 Yes
226 On the Wagon Leezie Lindsay The Eagle, the Mountain and the Red, Red Deer 2000 No
226 On the Wagon Leezie Lindsay - Reprise The Eagle, the Mountain and the Red, Red Deer 2000 No
226 Paddy Kelly Lizzy Lindsay A Song for Ireland 2002 No
226 Peter Yeates & Nick Voreas Leezy Lindsay Peter Yeates & Nick Voreas 1976 No
226 Philmari Leezie Lindsay Just Folk 2005 No
226 Robin Hall Leezie Lindsay MacPherson's Rant 1959 No
226 Ronnie Browne Leezie Lindsay Scottish Love Songs 1995 3:04 Yes
226 Ronnie Browne Leezie Lindsay The West Highland Way Song Collection 2007 No
226 Rory & Alex McEwen Leezey Lindsey Scottish Songs and Ballads 1957 1:14 Yes
226 Stephen Quigg Lizzie Lindsy Dumbarton's Drums 1996 No
226 Stephen Quigg Leezie Lindsay Scottish Collection - 21 Great Songs of Scotland 2006 4:00 Yes
226 The Alexander Brothers Margarets Waltz + Leezie Lindsay The Alexander Brothers 1994 2:59 Yes
226 The Armstrong Family Leezie Lindsay The Wheel of the Year: Thirty Years with The Armstrong Family 1992 3:11 Yes
226 The Bardsley Brew Lizzy Lindsay So Long 1970 3:08 Yes
226 The Beggarmen Leezie Lindsay The Beggarmen 1969 3:51 Yes
226 The Bonnie Scots Lizzie Lindsay Laugh and Cry 1969 No
226 The Boys of the Isle Leezie Lindsay Traditional Airs for the Celtic Harp and Fiddle - the Gold Collection 2004 1:28 Yes
226 The Campbells Leezie Lindsay Heart of the Highlands - The Great Celtic Anthems of Scotland 2002 4:30 Yes
226 The Campbells Leezie Lindsay Power and Honesty 1995 No
226 The Campbells Leezie Lindsay Celtic Voices 2007 No
226 The Corries Leezie Lindsay Peat Fire Flame + Stovies 2000 3:23 Yes
226 The Corries Leezie Lindsay <website> 1983 2:56 Yes
226 The Corries Leezie Lindsay The Essential Corries Collection 2011 No
226 The Foundry Bar Band Come By the Hills + Lizzie Lindsay + Piper's Weird Rolling Home 1988 No
226 The Fureys Leezy Lindsay The Essential Fureys 2001 3:55 Yes
226 The Fureys Leezy Lindsay The Spanish Cloak - Best of The Fureys 2000 3:54 Yes
226 The Fureys & Davey Arthur Leezy Lindsay Twenty Fifth Anniversary Collection 2005 3:52 Yes
226 The Harvesters Lizzie Lindsay Twelve Years on .. 1978 3:02 Yes
226 The Jolly Rogues Lizzie Lindsay The Road to Boston 2003 3:48 Yes
226 The Laggan Leezy Lindsay Music of Scotland 1974 No
226 The Makem Brothers & Mickey & Liam Spain Leezie Lindsay Like Others Did Before Us 2006 3:40 Yes
226 The Moorland Folk Lizzie Lindsay Moorland Folk’s Greatest Hits Volume 74 1998 No
226 The Pikemen Lizzie Lindsay The Lonesome Boatmen 1978 No
226 The Taverners Leezie Lindsay Seldom Sober 1970 3:01 Yes
226 Tom Dahill Lizzie Lindsay Simply Folk Sampler 2 1990 No
226 Vivien Hamilton & Len Vorster Will Ye Gang to the Hielands, Leezie Lindsay? Burns and Beyond - Songs of Robert Burns 2009 No
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
226. LIZIE LINDSAY
Texts: Advertiser (Aurora, Mo.), 5 22 '41, 2 / Barry, Brit Elds Me, 297/ Brewster, Bids Sgs Ind, 135 / Cox, Trd Bid W Va, 36 / Randolph, Os F-S, I, 164. Local Titles: Leezie Lindsay, New Yealand.
Story Types: A: There are a few extremely abbreviated versions of the Child story in America. A man asks a girl to go to the highlands with him. She refuses, for she knows neither him nor his home. However, the girl's maid wishes she were in a position to accept the man's offer. The girl then dresses up und leaves with her suitor. Upon their arrival at his home, she is
shown the land into which she has married. The real story seems forgotten.
Examples: Brewster, Randolph.
B : A little lyric request of a lover, in which he asks a girl "to go to the highlands", exists as a song. She refuses.
Examples : Barry.
Discussion: A derivative of Lizie Lindsay is to be found in this country. But, because of the fragmentary nature of some of the texts, it is difficult to be certain just how much of the traditional song is and has been in America. Barry, Brit Bids Me, 298 9 discusses this point in some detail in connection with his northern fragments. It seems certain that a few stanzas of the traditional ballad have come over in the derivative form of the song, and the incomplete Indiana, West Virginia,, and Arkansas texts appear to be genuine.
In the Child B version we are told how a young nobleman goes to get a wife in Edinburgh under the disguise of being a shepherd. The girl selected is reluctant to leave home and go with a poor stranger, but is persuaded to do so by her maid. She goes and is homesick, but learns the next day on getting up to milk the kye that she has married a rich man.
The Blaeberry Courtship, the song derived from Lizie Lindsay, exists in a number of American versions. See JAFL, XXXV, 345 from Illinois and MacKenzie, Bids Sea Sgs N Sc, 69 from Nova Scotia. This story tells of an educated and disguised Highlander who convinces a lowland girl to go with him against her parents' advice and who makes her a great lady. The "milk
cows" refrain allies it closely to Child 226.
The New Brunswick text, which may be influenced by both the tradition of the Child ballad and the derivative song, has lost the story and retains only a four-stanza request "to go to the highlands". The Arkansas version consists of a single stanza of request and a second stanza concerning the departure which is somewhat similar to Child C, Stanza 12. Nor can the Indiana fragment be allied directly to any Child version, although it resembles Child, IV, 524 in the first stanza and the name of the hero, Donald MacDonald. The West Virginia text is quite similar to this one.
Folk Index: Leezie/Leezy Lindsay [Ch 226]
Rt - Blaeberry Courtship
Scottish Song Book for Contralto, Bayley & Ferguson, Sof (1910s?), p110
Botsford, Florence Hudson (ed.) / Universal Folk Songster, Schirmer, Sof (1937), p102
Scotland in Song, Remick, fol (1953/1914), p 87 (Will Ye Gang to the Hielands)
Johnson, James & Robert Burns (eds) / Scots Musical Museum, Amadeus, Bk (1991/1853), #434 [1796]
Armstrong Family. Wheel of the Year. Thirty Years with the Armstrong Family, Flying Fish FF-70 594, CD/ (1992), trk# 7
Corries. Peat Fire Flames & Stovies, Moidart MOICD 018, CD (2000), trk# 1.01 [1977]
Hayes, Lisbeth. Randolph, Vance / Ozark Folksongs. Volume I, British Ballads and Songs, Univ. of Missouri, Bk (1980/1946), p165/# 29 [1920/01/12] (New Yealand)
Hendon, Mrs. Claude. Moore, Ethel & Chauncey (ed.) / Ballads and Folk Songs of the Southwest, Univ. of Okla, Bk (1964), p110/# 45 [1930s]
Laggan. Music of Scotland, National Geographic 707, LP (1974), trk# A.05
McClure, J. F.. Cox, John Harrington(ed.) / Traditional Ballads Mainly from West Virgini, WPA, Bk (1939), 11 [1925ca]
Reader, Eddi. Peacetime, Compass 7 4449 2, CD (2007), trk# 10
Stewart, Belle. Queen Among the Heather, Greentrax CDTrax 9055, CD (1998), trk# 13 [1976/05]
Yeates, Peter; and Nick Voreas. Peter Yeates & Nick Voreas, Duo WYLP-1, LP (1976), trk# A.04