"Bawbie Allen"
The fragil hope of young courtship that ones love is reciprocal, is further stressed by a fractured, violent society; feudal and futile – conditions perhaps some can relate to.
What did happenned in the tavern, to drive Donald to a fight over Bawbee? She dies, knowing he had loved her. Alas, he did not.
"Warrant," verse 9, here means 'proof.'
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YouTube:Ewin MacColl. Key of Em:
KEYS: Button above, Em. Written, Am.
"Child No. 84” written above the music refers to the numbering system of a seminal collection of early English song lyrics, The English and Scottish Ballads, by Francis James Child (1825-1896) Harvard University professor.
John Scott
1 Traditional North American Ballads
A Capella
Ages.. 5-15
Ages... 13-18
Death
Love&Romance
Woman
Social/Political
Violence