“Moorlough Maggie”

Description

Singer owns sheep, cattle, and ships at sea. He offers each to Moorlough Maggie if she will go with him. She rejects each offer: "Tae gie consent, love, I darna gie Tae herd your sheep high in yon heathery hills"

Notes

I have to suspect this is a fragment of something like "Lizie Lindsay." - RBW

Recordings

  • Stanley Robertson, "Moorlough Maggie" (on Voice15)

References

  1. Roud #12939
  2. BI, RcMooMag

About

Author: unknown
Earliest date: 1973 (recording, Stanley Robertson)
Found in: Britain(Scotland(Aber))