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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

Not much standardization there. :-)