“Bleacher Lassie o' Kelvinhaugh”
Description
"As I went out on a summer's evening," the singer meets a pretty girl in Kelvinhaugh. He asks what she is doing, then enquires if she will go with him. She refuses; she is waiting for her love, gone for seven years. He reveals himself as the missing lover
Cross references
- cf. esp. "John (George) Riley (I)" [Laws N36] and references there
Broadsides
- NLScotland, L.C.Fol.70(24b), "Bleaching Lassie of Kelvinhaugh," Poet's Box (Dundee), c. 1890 [despite the title, the girl is called a "bleacher lassie"]
References
- Ord, p. 77, "The Bleacher Lassie o' Kelvinhaugh" (1 text)
- Roud #3325
- BI, Ord077