{"collection":"Northern European Mythology","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/neu/eng/child/ch237.htm","path":"neu/eng/child/ch237.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/neu/eng/child/ch237.htm","text":"237A.1 THE Duke of Gordon has three daughters,\nElizabeth, Margaret, and Jean;\nThey would not stay in bonny Castle Gordon,\nBut they would go to bonny Aberdeen.\n237A.2 They had not been in Aberdeen\nA twelvemonth and a day\nTill Lady Jean fell in love with Captain Ogilvie,\nAnd away with him she would gae.\n237A.3 Word came to the Duke of Gordon,\nIn the chamber where he lay,\nLady Jean has fell in love with Captain Ogilvie,\nAnd away with him she would gae.\n237A.4 \u2018Go saddle to me the black horse,\nAnd you\u2019ll ride on the grey,\nAnd I will ride to bonny Aberdeen,\nWhere I have been many a day.\u2019\n237A.5 They were not a mile from Aberdeen,\nA mile but only three,\nTill he met with his two daughters walking,\nBut away was Lady Jean.\n237A.6 \u2018Where is your sister, maidens?\nWhere is your sister now?\nWhere is your sister, maidens,\nThat she is not walking with you?\u2019\n237A.7 \u2018O pardon us, honoured father,\nO pardon us,\u2019 they did say;\n\u2018Lady Jean is with Captain Ogilvie,\nAnd away with him she will gae.\u2019\n237A.8 When he came to Aberdeen,\nAnd down upon the green,\nThere did he see Captain Ogilvie,\nTraining up his men.\n237A.9 \u2018O wo to you, Captain Ogilvie,\nAnd an ill death thou shalt die;\nFor taking to thee my daughter,\nHang d thou shalt be.\u2019\n237A.10 Duke Gordon has wrote a broad letter,\nAnd sent it to the king,\nTo cause hang Captain Ogilvie\nIf ever he hanged a man.\n237A.11 \u2018I will not hang Captain Ogilvie,\nFor no lord that I see;\nBut I\u2019ll cause him to put off the lace and scarlet,\nAnd put on the single livery.\u2019\n237A.12 Word came to Captain Ogilvie,\nIn the chamber where he lay,\nTo cast off the gold lace and scarlet,\nAnd put on the single livery.\n237A.13 \u2018If this be for bonny Jeany Gordon,\nThis pennance I\u2019ll take wi;\nIf this be for bonny Jeany Gordon,\nAll this I will dree.\u2019\n237A.14 Lady Jean had not been married,\nNot a year but three,\nTill she had a babe in every arm,\nAnother upon her knee.\n237A.15 \u2018O but I\u2019m weary of wandering!\nO but my fortune is bad!\nIt sets not the Duke of Gordon\u2019s daughter\nTo follow a soldier-lad.\n237A.16 \u2018O but I\u2019m weary of wandering!\nO but I think lang!\nIt sets not the Duke of Gordon\u2019s daughter\nTo follow a single man.\u2019\n237A.17 When they came to the Highland hills,\nCold was the frost and snow;\nLady Jean\u2019s shoes they were all torn,\nNo farther could she go.\n237A.18 \u2018O wo to the hills and the mountains!\nWo to the wind and the rain!\nMy feet is sore with going barefoot,\nNo further am I able to gang.\n237A.19 \u2018Wo to the hills and the mountains!\nWo to the frost and the snow!\nMy feet is sore with going barefoot,\nNo farther am I able to go.\n237A.20 \u2018O if I were at the glens of Foudlen,\nWhere hunting I have been,\nI would find the way to bonny Castle Gordon,\nWithout either stockings or shoon.\u2019\n237A.21 When she came to Castle Gordon,\nAnd down upon the green,\nThe porter gave out a loud shout,\n\u2018O yonder comes Lady Jean!\u2019\n237A.22 \u2018O you are welcome, bonny Jeany Gordon,\nYou are dear welcome to me;\nYou are welcome, dear Jeany Gordon,\nBut away with your Captain Ogilvie.\u2019\n237A.23 Now over seas went the captain,\nAs a soldier under command;\nA message soon followed after\nTo come and heir his brother\u2019s land.\n237A.24 \u2018Come home, you pretty Captain Ogilvie,\nAnd heir your brother\u2019s land;\nCome Home, ye pretty Captain Ogilvie,\nBe Earl of Northumberland.\u2019\n237A.25 \u2018O what does this mean?\u2019 says the captain;\n\u2018Where\u2019s my brother\u2019s children three?\u2019\n\u2018They are dead and buried,\nAnd the lands they are ready for thee.\u2019\n237A.26 \u2018Then hoist up your sails, brave captain,\nLet\u2019s be jovial and free;\nI\u2019ll to Northumberland and heir my estate,\nThen my dear Jeany I\u2019ll see.\u2019\n237A.27 He soon came to Castle Gordon,\nAnd down upon the green;\nThe porter gave out with a loud shout,\n\u2018Here comes Captain Ogilvie!\u2019\n237A.28 You\u2019re welcome, pretty Captain Ogilvie,\nYour fortune\u2019s advanced I hear;\nNo stranger can come unto my gates\nThat I do love so dear.\u2019\n237A.29 \u2018Sir, the last time I was at your gates,\nYou would not let me in;\nI\u2019m come for my wife and children,\nNo friendship else I claim.\u2019\n237A.30 \u2018Come in, pretty Captain Ogilvie,\nAnd drink of the beer and the wine;\nAnd thou shalt have gold and silver\nTo count till the clock strike nine.\u2019\n237A.31 \u2018I\u2019ll have none of your gold or silver,\nNor none of your white-money;\nBut I\u2019ll have bonny Jeany Gordon,\nAnd she shall go now with me.\u2019\n237A.32 Then she came tripping down the stair,\nWith the tear into her eye;\nOne babe was at her foot,\nAnother upon her knee.\n237A.33 \u2018You\u2019re welcome, bonny Jeany Gordon,\nWith my young family;\nMount and go to Northumberland,\nThere a countess thou shall be.\u2019","title":"The Child Ballads: 237. The Duke of Gordon's Daughter","type":"page"}