Banks of Dundee, The (Undaunted Mary) [Laws M25]

DESCRIPTION: A rich girl, now living with her uncle, falls in love with Willie, a plowboy. Since her uncle wants her to marry a squire, he tries to have Willie pressed. The squire attempts to take Mary; she shoots him, then her uncle. Mary then is free to marry Willie
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: before 1845 (broadside, Harding B 11(3942))
KEYWORDS: love death marriage poverty rape
FOUND IN: US(Ap,MA,MW,Ro,SE,So,SW) Canada(Mar,Newf,Ont) Britain(England(North),Scotland) Ireland
REFERENCES (39 citations):
Laws M25, "The Banks of Dundee (Undaunted Mary)"
Ford-VagabondSongsAndBalladsOfScotland, pp. 78-81, "The Banks of Sweet Dundee" (1 text, 1 tune)
Greig-FolkSongInBuchan-FolkSongOfTheNorthEast #66, pp. 1-2, "The Banks of Sweet Dundee" (1 text)
Greig/Duncan2 224, "The Banks of Sweet Dundee" (9 texts, 9 tunes)
Ord-BothySongsAndBallads, pp. 406-407, "The Banks of Sweet Dundee" (1 text)
Gatherer-SongsAndBalladsOfDundee 57, "The Banks of Sweet Dundee II" (1 text, 2 tunes)
Copper-SongsAndSouthernBreezes, pp. 200-201, "The Banks of Sweet Dandee" (1 text, 1 tune)
Broadwood/Maitland-EnglishCountySongs, pp. 116-117, "The Farmer's Daughter" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud/Bishop-NewPenguinBookOfEnglishFolkSongs #58, "The Banks of Sweet Dundee" (1 text, 1 tune)
O'Conor-OldTimeSongsAndBalladOfIreland, p. 68, "The Banks of Sweet Dundee" (1 text)
Williams-Wiltshire-WSRO Mi 664, "On the Banks of the Sweet Dundee" (1 text)
Kidson-TraditionalTunes, pp. 53-55,173, "The Banks of Sweet Dundee" (1 text, 2 tunes)
McBride-FlowerOfDunaffHillAndMoreTradSongsInnishowen 5, "The Banks of Sweet Dundee" (1 text, 1 tune)
Eddy-BalladsAndSongsFromOhio 54, "The Banks of Sweet Dundee" (1 text)
Gardner/Chickering-BalladsAndSongsOfSouthernMichigan 69, "The Banks of Sweet Dundee" (1 text plus an excerpt and mention of 1 more, 1 tune)
Peters-FolkSongsOutOfWisconsin, pp. 200-201, "The Farmer Had a Daughter" (1 text, 1 tune)
Stout-FolkloreFromIowa 30, pp. 44-45, "The Banks of Sweet Dundee" (1 text)
Belden-BalladsSongsCollectedByMissourFolkloreSociety, pp. 137-139, "The Banks of Dundee" (2 texts, 1 tune)
Chappell-FolkSongsOfRoanokeAndTheAlbermarle 58, "The Banks of Sweet Dundee" (1 text)
Randolph 62, "On the Banks of Sweet Dundee" (2 texts, 2 tunes)
Randolph/Cohen-OzarkFolksongs-Abridged, pp. 85-88, "On the Banks of Sweet Dundee" (1 text, 1 tune -- Randolph's 62A)
Moore/Moore-BalladsAndFolkSongsOfTheSouthwest 77, "Pretty Mary" (1 text, 1 tune)
Bronner/Eskin-FolksongAlivePart1 1, "The Banks of the Sweet Dundee" (1 text, 1 tune)
Hubbard-BalladsAndSongsFromUtah, #23, "On the Banks of Sweet Dundee" (1 text, 1 tune)
Sharp-EnglishFolkSongsFromSouthernAppalachians 67, "The Banks of Sweet Dundee" (3 texts, 3 tunes)
Brown/Schinhan-FrankCBrownCollectionNCFolklore4 323, "The Banks of Sweet Dundee" (1 fragment, 1 tune)
Vikár/Panagapka-SongsNorthWoodsSungByOJAbbott 18, "The Banks of Sweet Dundee" (1 text, 1 tune)
Creighton/Senior-TraditionalSongsOfNovaScotia, pp. 128-130, "The Banks of Sweet Dundee" (2 texts, 1 tune)
Creighton-MaritimeFolkSongs, p. 38, "The Banks of Sweet Dundee" (1 text, 1 tune)
Mackenzie-BalladsAndSeaSongsFromNovaScotia 23, "The Banks of Sweet Dundee" (1 text)
Leach-TheBalladBook, pp. 740-741, "The Banks of Dundee" (1 text)
Leach-FolkBalladsSongsOfLowerLabradorCoast 14, "The Banks of Sweet Dundee" (1 text, 1 tune)
Lehr/Best-ComeAndIWillSingYou 6, "The Banks of Sweet Dundee" (1 text, 1 tune)
Guigné-ForgottenSongsOfTheNewfoundlandOutports, pp. 38-41, "The Banks of Sweet Dundee (or Undaunted Mary)" (1 text, 1 tune)
Cazden/Haufrecht/Studer-FolkSongsOfTheCatskills 50, "The Banks of Sweet Dundee" (1 text, 1 tune)
Thompson-BodyBootsAndBritches-NewYorkStateFolktales, pp. 394-397, "The Farmer's Daughter" (1 text)
Cox-FolkSongsSouth 119, "The Banks of Sweet Dundee" (2 texts)
DT 318, SWTDUNDE* SWYDUND2*
ADDITIONAL: James P. Leary, Compiler and Annotator, _Wisconsin Folklore_ University of Wisconsin Press, 2009, article "Kentucky Folksong in Northern Wisconsin" by Asher E. Treat, p. 227, "A Farmer Had a Daughter" (1 text, 1 tune, sung by Pearl Jacobs Borusky)
Roud #148
RECORDINGS:
Bob Brader, "The Banks of Sweet Dundee" (on Voice15)
Michael "Straighty" Flanagan, "Banks of Sweet Dundee" (on IRClare01)
Tony Wales, "The Banks of Sweet Dundee" (on TWales1)
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Harding B 11(3942), "Undaunted Mary" or "The Banks of Sweet Dundee," J. Pitts (London), 1819-1844; also Harding B 15(339a), Harding B 11(67), Harding B 11(834), Johnson Ballads 612A, Harding B 11(3944), Firth c.12(262), Harding B 11(2540), Harding B 11(3943), "Undaunted Mary" or "The Banks of Sweet Dundee"; Firth c.26(255), Harding B 18(25), 2806 c.14(15)[partly illegible], "Banks of Sweet Dundee" [same as LOCSinging as200230]; Firth c.12(260), "Undaunted Mary, On the Banks of Sweet Dundee"; 2806 c.16(263), "Undaunted Mary"
LOCSinging, as200230, "The Banks of Sweet Dundee", H. De Marsan (New York), 1861-1864; also as111340, "The Banks of Sweet Dundee" [same as Bodleian Harding B 18(25)]
Murray, Mu23-y1:094, "Undaunted Mary on The Banks of Sweet Dundee", James Lindsay (Glasgow), 19C
NLScotland, L.C.Fol.70(110a), "Banks of Sweet Dundee," unknown, c. 1890; also RB.m.143(034), "Banks of Sweet Dundee"
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "The Gardener Lad" (tune, according to Greig/Duncan2)
cf. "The Banks of the Inverness" (sequel)
cf. "William's Return to the Banks of Sweet Dundee (Answer to Undaunted Mary)" (sequel)
ALTERNATE TITLES:
The Plooboy
The Sweet and Dee
NOTES [83 words]: Greig: "There is another 'Banks of sweet Dundee,' but the story in it is different, although the hero is also William and a ploughboy."
I am following Greig, Greig/Duncan and Roud in splitting this from "Answer to Undaunted Mary." The Bodleian broadsides with that title have been moved to the sequel.
Broadside LOCSinging as200230: H. De Marsan dating per Studying Nineteenth-Century Popular Song by Paul Charosh in American Music, Winter 1997, Vol 15.4, Table 1, available at FindArticles site. - BS
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