Bonny Baby Livingston [Child 222]

DESCRIPTION: Glenlion carries Bonny Baby Livingston off to the Highlands. She refuses to show any favor unless she is returned. At Glenlion Castle, Glenlion's sister helps Baby get a letter away to her true love. He arrives with armed men, and carries Baby back home.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1800 (Riewerts-BalladRepertoireOfAnnaGordon-MrsBrownOfFalkland)
LONG DESCRIPTION: Bonny Baby Livingston is carried off to the Highlands by Glenlion. She refuses to smile or speak or show any favor unless she is returned. Glenlion's brother John wants to return her, but Glenlion hopes to win her love. At Glenlion Castle, Glenlion's youngest sister helps Baby get a letter away to her true love Johnny at Dundee. He arrives with armed men, and carries Baby back home.
KEYWORDS: love abduction rescue family
FOUND IN: Britain(Scotland(Aber,Bord))
REFERENCES (13 citations):
Child 222, "Bonnie Baby Livingston" (5 texts, 1 tune) {Bronson's [#1]}
Bronson 222, "Bonnie Baby Livingston" (1 version+1 in addenda)
Bronson-SingingTraditionOfChildsPopularBallads 222, "Bonny Baby Livingston" (1 version)
Riewerts-BalladRepertoireOfAnnaGordon-MrsBrownOfFalkland, pp. 238-248, "Bonny Baby Livingston" (2 parallel texts)
Buchan/Moreira-TheGlenbuchatBallads, pp. 168-172, "Baby Livingston" (1 text)
Greig/Duncan6 1264, "Bawbie Livingstone" (3 texts, 1 tune)
Lyle-Andrew-CrawfurdsCollectionVolume2 111, "Bonnie Annie Livingstoun" (1 text)
Leach-TheBalladBook, pp. 579-583, "Bonny Baby Livingston" (1 text)
Quiller-Couch-OxfordBookOfBallads 147, "Baby Livingston" (1 text)
Buchan-ABookOfScottishBallads 24, "Bonny Baby Livingston" (1 text)
Whitelaw-BookOfScottishBallads, pp. 96-98, "Bonnie Baby Livingston" (1 text)
Gatherer-SongsAndBalladsOfDundee 3, "Bonnie Annie Livingston" (1 text, 1 tune) {Bronson's #3, with the key changed}
DT, BABLIVST*
Roud #100
NOTES [36 words]: David C. Fowler, A Literary History of the Popular Ballad, Duke University Press, 1968, p. 312, suggests that this is Anna Gordon Brown's answer to "Jock o the Side" [Child 187], made to be more pro-feminine. - RBW
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