Logie O Buchan

DESCRIPTION: The singer complains that "they have taken away Jemy the delight of the yard." She has been offered the hand of wealthy Sandy, but prefers to wait for her beloved Jemy. Before he left, he gave her half of his only sixpence
AUTHOR: George Halket? (1736-1756) (source: Buchan)
EARLIEST DATE: 1803 (Scots Musical Museum)
KEYWORDS: love courting separation poverty brokentoken
FOUND IN: US(SE) Britain(Scotland(Aber))
REFERENCES (8 citations):
Huntington-SongsTheWhalemenSang, pp. 197-198, "O Logie o Buchan" (1 text, 1 tune)
Hudson-FolksongsOfMississippi 55, pp. 171-172, "Logie o' Buchan" (1 short and much-damaged text)
Greig/Duncan4 828, "Logie o' Buchan" (1 text plus a second version on pp. 549-550)
Whitelaw-BookOfScottishSong, p. 443, "Logie o' Buchan" (1 text)
DT, LOGIBUCH*
ADDITIONAL: Peter Buchan, Gleanings of Scarce Old Ballads (Peterhead: A. Sangster and G. Mudie, 1825 ("Digitized by Google")), pp. 175-176,211-215, "Logie o' Buchan"
Charles W. Eliot, editor, English Poetry Vol II From Collins to Fitzgerald (New York, 1910), #340, pp. 571-572, "Logie o' Buchan" (by George Halket)
ADDITIONAL: The Ulverston New Poetical Miscellany: Containing a Selection of the Most Fashionable Songs, with Many Originals, Not Inserted in Ashburner's Vocal and Poetic Repository, G. Ashburner, Ulverston, 1812 (available on Google Books), p. 116, "O Logie of Buchan" (1 text)
Roud #1994
SAME TUNE:
Union for Ever ("Ye sons of Liberty assert your birthright," by "D. K. 42nd Regiment NYSV; tune listed as "Logic of Buckam," which is surely this) (Wolf-AmericanSongSheets p. 163)
File: SWMS197

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