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Thread #2785   Message #4229996
Posted By: GUEST,Jack Campin
10-Oct-25 - 12:30 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Loch Lomond
Subject: RE: Origins: Loch Lomond
The first publication of the song was as a ballad sheet by Sanderson in Edinburgh - it seems he got it from Lady John Scott, who covered her tracks saying it was taken from a boy street singer in Edinburgh. I'm pretty sure that version has been posted here, possibly by me. A thread merge might be in order.

Nothing remotely like it is in Hogg's "Jacobite Relics" (1817-21) and he was thorough. It can't have existed before then.