Hobie Noble (
Roud
The Roud Folk Song Index is a database of around 250,000 references to nearly 25,000 songs collected from oral tradition in the English language from all over the world. It is compiled by Steve Roud. Roud's Index is a combination of the Broadsid ...
4014,
Child
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189) is an Anglo-Scottish
border ballad
Border ballads are a group of songs in the long tradition of balladry collected from the Anglo-Scottish border. Like all traditional ballads, they were traditionally sung unaccompanied. There may be a repeating motif, but there is no "chorus" as ...
.
Synopsis
Hobie Noble, an Englishman, was outlawed and fled to Scotland. A traitor tried persuade him to come to England. The traitor failed, but learned where Hobie was going, and sent word. Hobie dreamed that he was attacked and woke. He and his men tried to escape, but his attackers found and defeated them. Hobie was taken prisoner and carried off, to many comments that he had freed
Jock o the Side
Jock of the Side or Jock O' the Side is a border ballad existing in several variants, and is part of the series of 305 traditional songs of England and Scotland known as the Child ballads, having Child number 187. It is assigned the Roud number 8 ...
. He refused to confess to any crimes, and said he would rather be a prisoner than a traitor.
External links
''Hobie Noble''
Child Ballads
Border ballads
Northumbrian folklore
English outlaws
Songs with unknown songwriters
Year of song unknown
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