Miller o' Drone, The

DESCRIPTION: A miller grinds a maid's corn. She praises him to her mother. Mother has her corn ground. When the old man goes he is beaten. When he understands the game he beats mother and daughter until they promise not to return to Drone. They return anyway.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1877 (Poet's Box broadside "Miller of Drone," according to Greig/Duncan7)
KEYWORDS: sex violence miller father mother
FOUND IN: Britain(Scotland(Aber))
REFERENCES (2 citations):
Greig-FolkSongInBuchan-FolkSongOfTheNorthEast #41, p. 1, "Miller o' Drone" (1 fragment)
Greig/Duncan7 1435, "The Miller o' Drone" (3 texts, 2 tunes)
Roud #7155
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "The Battle o' Harlaw" (tune, per Greig/Duncan7)
cf. "The Maid Gaed to the Mill" (theme: sex and a miller; grinding corn as the metaphor) and references there
File: GrD71435

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