May Peace and May Plenty Her Footsteps Attend

DESCRIPTION: A toast "to the lass wi' the lang pedigree": "to the poor and the lowly she's aye been a friend"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1910 (Greig/Duncan8)
KEYWORDS: virtue nonballad
FOUND IN: Britain(Scotland(Aber))
REFERENCES (2 citations):
Greig-FolkSongInBuchan-FolkSongOfTheNorthEast #155, p. 2, ("May peace and may plenty her footsteps attend") (1 fragment)
Greig/Duncan8 1926, "May Peace and May Plenty Her Footsteps Attend" (1 text)
Roud #15446
NOTES [22 words]: Greig: "Mr Mowat ... gives a verse of a song written in honour of Lord Clinton's mother, and sung at her Majority Banquet in 1857." - BS
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File: GrD81926

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