Recordings & Info 28. Burd Ellen & Young Tamlane
[There is only one known recording of this rare ballad.]
CONTENTS
1) Traditional Ballad Index
2) Child Collection Index
ATTACHED PAGES: (see left hand column)
1) Roud number 3962; Burd Ellen and Young Tamlane (2 listings)
Burd Ellen and Young Tamlane [Child 28]
DESCRIPTION: Burd Ellen is at her knitting, crying over her baby. Young Tamlane, apparently the father, bids her rock the child. Rock the child she will not, and he departs with her curse.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1824 (Maidment)
KEYWORDS: bastard curse children mother abandonment curse
FOUND IN: Britain(Scotland)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Child 28, "Burd Ellen and Young Tamlane" (1 text)
Child Collection Index
028 Christopher Maltman Lilligay: Burd Ellen and Young Tamlane The English Songs Series, Vol. 4 - Peter Warlock 2003 2:29 Yes