Recordings & Info 240. The Rantin Laddie
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. 103: The Rantin Laddie (34 Listings)
Alternate Titles
Aboyne's Bonnie Lady
Lord Aboyne
Traditional Ballad Index: Rantin' Laddie, The [Child 240]
DESCRIPTION: The lady has "played at the cards and the dice" with the rantin' laddie; now she has a child and is scorned. She sends a letter to the rantin' laddie -- who proves to be the Earl of Aboyne. He marries her and all are happy
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1803 (Skene ms.)
KEYWORDS: love courting marriage adultery bastard cards
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland(Aber)) US(NE)
REFERENCES: (9 citations)
Child 240, "The Rantin' Laddie" (4 texts)
Bronson 240, "The Rantin' Laddie" (6 versions+1 in addenda)
Greig #154, pp. 1-2, "The Rantin Laddie"; Greig #156, pp. 2-3, "The Rantin Laddie" (3 texts plus 2 fragments)
GreigDuncan5 976, "The Rantin Laddie" (5 texts plus two fragments from Greig on p. 604, 3 tunes)
BarryEckstormSmyth pp. 303-304, "The Rantin' Laddie" (1 fragment, 1 tune, a single "Rantin' Laddie" stanxa with a "hush-a-bye" chorus perhaps from the mother to her bastard baby) {Bronson's #6}
Leach, pp. 597-598, "The Rantin' Laddie" (2 texts)
Combs/Wilgus 35, pp. 127-128, "The Rantin Laddie" (1 text)
DBuchan 57, "The Rantin Laddie" (1 text)
DT 240, RANTNLAD*
Roud #103
RECORDINGS:
Willie Mathieson, "The Bonny Rantin' Laddie" [fragment] (on FSBBAL2) {Bronson's #5.1}
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Binorie" (tune, per GreigDuncan5)
ALTERNATE_TITLES:
Aboyne's Bonnie Lady
NOTES: The "rant" is a dance step, now found chiefly in Northumberland and surrounding areas. - PJS
Child Collection Index- Child Ballad 240: The Rantin Laddie
Child --Artist --Title --Album --Year --Length --Have
240 Alex Campbell The Bonnie Rantin Laddie The James Madison Carpenter Collection 1927-1955 No
240 Alex Stephens Bonnie Rantin Laddie The James Madison Carpenter Collection 1927-1955 No
240 Alexander Clark Bonnie Rantin Laddie The James Madison Carpenter Collection 1927-1955 No
240 Bell Duncan The Bonnie Rantin Laddie The James Madison Carpenter Collection 1927-1955 No
240 Bell Duncan The Rantin Laddie The James Madison Carpenter Collection 1927-1955 No
240 Ewan MacColl The Rantin Laddie The English and Scottish Popular Ballads (The Child Ballads) - Vol. 1 1956 No
240 Ewan MacColl The Rantin Laddie The English and Scottish Popular Ballads (The Child Ballads) - Vol. 2 [Reissue] 196? No
240 Ewan MacColl The Rantin Laddie The English and Scottish Popular Ballads (Child Ballads) - Vol. 1 1961 3:35 Yes
240 Ewan MacColl The Rantin Laddie Ballads - Murder Intrigue Love Discord 2009 3:59 Yes
240 Gordon Bok & Cindy Kallet Rantin' Laddie Neighbors 1996 4:53 Yes
240 Gordon Tyrrall The Rantin' Laddie Farewell to Foggy Hills 1978 6:25 Yes
240 Hector Campbell Bonnie Rantin Laddie The James Madison Carpenter Collection 1927-1955 No
240 Jean Redpath The Rantin' Laddie Jean Redpath's Scottish Ballad Book 1962 No
240 Jean Redpath Rantin' Laddie First Flight 1992 2:32 Yes
240 Kirsten Easdale Aften Hae I Play'd with the Cards and the Dice The Complete Songs of Robert Burns, Vol. 11 2003 2:47 Yes
240 Lori Holland The Rantin' Laddie Scottish Folksongs for Women 1958 No
240 Maureen Jelks The Rantin' Laddie Eence Upon a Time - Scots Songs & Ballads 2000 5:07 Yes
240 Old Woman Singer The Rantin Laddie The James Madison Carpenter Collection 1927-1955 No
240 Tania Opland The Rantin' Laddie Hunter's Moon [Bonnie Rantin' Lassie] 1993 4:30 Yes
240 William Mathieson The Rantin Laddie The James Madison Carpenter Collection 1927-1955 No
240 William Still The Bonnie Rantin Laddie The James Madison Carpenter Collection 1927-1955 No
240 Willie Mathieson The Bonny Rantin' Laddie Classic Ballads of Britain & Ireland - Folk Songs of England, Ireland, Scotland & Wales, Vol 2 2000 :40 Yes
240 Willie Mathieson The Bonny Rantin' Laddie The Green Wedding - The Classic Ballads 3 1976 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
240. THE RANTIN LADDIE
Texts: Barry, Brit Bids Me, 303 / Combs, F-S Etats-Unis, 145.
Local Titles: The Rantin' Laddie.
Story Types: A: A poor girl, with a dubious past, has a bastard child by a nobleman. Her family scorns her; so she sends one of her father's servants to tell her "laddie" of her plight. He responds gallantly and sends a retinue to fetch the girl, Maggie, home as his bride.
Examples: Combs.
B: A short song remains from the ballad. It implies a dubious past and a bastard child of the girl.
Examples: Barry.
Discussion: The Combs, F-S Etats-Unis, version follows 'Child A and C in story, while the Canadian fragment represents a lyric remain which contains only the first stanza of the actual ballad. A "hush-a-by" refrain, unknown elsewhere to this song, rounds out the piece.
Folk Index; The Rantin Laddie [Ch 240]
At - Lord Aboyne
Johnson, James & Robert Burns (eds) / Scots Musical Museum, Amadeus, Bk (1991/1853), #462 [1796]
Leach, MacEdward / The Ballad Book, Harper & Row, Bk (1955), p597
Leach, MacEdward / The Ballad Book, Harper & Row, Bk (1955), p598
MacColl, Ewan. English & Scottish Popular Ballads, Vol. 2, Washington WLP 716, LP (1963/1956), trk# B.04
Redpath, Jean. Scottish Ballad Book, Elektra EKL 214, LP (1962), trk# 8