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GUEST,threelegsoman Lyr Add: Huntingtower (12) RE: Lyr Add: Huntingtower 29 Jan 18


I found the lyrics to this song on a site http://www.contemplator.com/folk.html Songs from England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales and America.
My own version can be found at:
Huntingtower (Including lyrics and chords)

As an introduction to the song I wrote the following:

The following information about this song comes from the sister site to Songs of the Sea:
This ballad is also known as The Duke of Athol and The Duke of Athol's Courtship. It appeared in George Kinloch's Ancient Scottish Ballads (1827).
The Duke of Athol appears as an appendix to Child Ballad #232 (Richie Story). Child felt it was "too well known to require citing" (Child, Vol. IV, 299). Richie Story dated from 1802.

For a complete list of Child Ballads at this site go to Francis J. Child Ballads.

Another male/female courtship song is Madam, Will You Walk?.

(thole = bear)

As the Isle of Man was for a period under the rule of the Dukes of Athol, I feel sure that this song would have been well known here in the 1800s.


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