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Thread #9274   Message #2715856
Posted By: Jack Campin
03-Sep-09 - 09:05 PM
Thread Name: Info Req: Loch Lomond/You Take the High Road
Subject: RE: Info Req: Loch Lomond/You Take the High Road
Bruce Olson gave the tune for "Kind Robin loes me", which as he said is from the 18th century.

Words: unknown balladeer c.1830, tidied up by Lady John Scott much later.

I tried to find the Sanderson broadside but failed. There are bundles of their broadsides all over the place, though.

I suspect the Newcastle broadside is a side branch of the song's evolution. It's pretty coherent and it would be surprising if the song later evolved to lose all reference to famous historical characters like Charles Stuart and Flora Macdonald. More likely the balladeer decided it would make for a more saleable product if he or she put them in, but the sheet didn't catch on.