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Willie o Winsbury
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Willie O Winsbury is Child Ballad #100, existing in several variants.[1] It is a traditional Scottish ballad that dates from at least 1775, and is known under a number of different names, including Lord Thomas of Winesberry.

A king is away for a long time. His daughter becomes pregnant by the hero, William or Thomas. The king threatens to hang him, but is struck by his beauty and offers him the heroine and gold. The hero accepts the lady but declares that he has both gold and lands enough of his own.
[edit]Commentary

This ballad closely parallels Child ballad 99, Johnie Scot.[2].
In one variants, the lands are specifically described: he will be king when he returns to Scotland. It may, in fact, be based on James V's courtship of and marriage to Madeleine de Valois of France; James came to see the woman he was betrothed to in disguise, and went on to meet the princess, who fell in love with him.[3]
Nowadays the song is often sung to the tune of Fause Foodrage, rather than its own traditional tune.


roddy johnston guitar vocals
kate badcock sax vocals
joane winster clarinete vocals
alessandro solzano drums
live at seven arts center on the 14 november 2010
words and music by roddy johnston
aranged by the valtra spring
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