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Thread #174269 Message #4227386
Posted By: Robert B. Waltz
19-Aug-25 - 09:19 PM
Thread Name: Chord Req: Lizzie Lindsay in DADGAD tuning
Subject: RE: Chord Req: Lizzie Lindsay in DADGAD tuning
Sol wrote, FWIW, I've always known it as "Leezie Lindsay" although Wiki says it is also known as 'Lizie' or 'Lizzie' Lindsay.
The name is of course being spelled according to whatever phonetic or orthographic rules the transcriber used. Child called it "Lizie Lindsay," which distorts the record, but Roud attests all the following titles:
BONNIE LIZIE LINDSAY BONNIE LIZZIE LINDSAY BONNY LIZIE LINDSAY DONALD MACDONALD DONALD OF THE ISLES LEESIE LINDSAY LEEZIE LINDSAY LIZIE LINDSAY LIZZIE LINDSAY LIZZIE LINZIE LIZZY LINDSAY LORD RONALD LORD RONALD MACDONALD NEW YEALAND SIR DONALD AND ELIZA LINDSAY WILL YE GANG TO THE HIGHLANDS WILL YE GO TO THE HIELANDS LIZZIE LINDSAY