"Walter Lesly" (
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 ...
3925,
Child
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296) is a traditional English-language folk ballad.
Synopsis
Walter Lesly asks a lady to come to Conland. Then his kinsmen, led by Geordy Lesly, carry her off. A wedding feast is ready, and they are put in bed together. When he is asleep, she gets up, dresses, and runs off, swearing to deal no more with him. It concludes with the observation that he was not interested in either her looks or her noble blood, but only her money.
Origins
The ballad had previously been published in
Peter Buchan
Peter Buchan (4 August 1790 – 19 September 1854) was a Scottish editor, publisher, and collector of ballads and folktales.
Biography
Born in Peterhead, Buchan apprenticed with a , and in 1814 produced his first book, a collection of verse whic ...
's ''Ancient Ballads and Songs of the North of Scotland'' (published in 1828).
See also
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List of the Child Ballads
is the colloquial name given to a collection of 305 ballads collected in the 19th century by Francis James Child and originally published in ten volumes between 1882 and 1898 under the title ''The English and Scottish Popular Ballads.''
The ba ...
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Broughty Wa's
Broughty Wa's or (Burd) Helen (Child ballad # 258; Roud # 108) is a traditional folk song.
Synopsis
Helen is a beautiful heiress, betrothed to Hazelan. Glenhazlen visits her and is well received, until his men surround her and they carry her o ...
References
Child Ballads
Year of song unknown
Songs with unknown songwriters
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