Jockey's Escape from Dundee

DESCRIPTION: "Where got thou the haver-meal bannock? Blind Bubby, canst thou not see?" Singer Jock has gotten the minister's daughter of Dundee pregnant; the minister demands he marry her. Jock is not interested in marriage; he asks Sandy to help him escape
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1719 (Pills to Purge Melancholy, according to Gatherer-SongsAndBalladsOfDundee)
KEYWORDS: sex pregnancy abandonment clergy
FOUND IN: Britain(Scotland)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Gatherer-SongsAndBalladsOfDundee 28, "Jockey's Escape from Dundee" (1 text, tune referenced)
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "Bonnie Dundee (II)" (opening lines)
File: Gath028

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