Jock o'Hazeldean

Rarely can I get through this song without cracking up.
The lyrics are by Sir Walter Scott and belong to the
border ballad tradition, although the song itself is based
on the Child Ballad no 293.

I have included the chords in the video if you want to
get dewy eyed and lament the lost age of chivalry and
romanticism. Smashing story to the song.

I like this!

I had a look at your You Tube Channel. Some good stuff there so I subscribed.

wow, this is brilliant Rob. Can't beat a Scottish ballad sung the way it was meant to be sung...thanks for this one mate, a beautiful honest reading

eugene ukulele said:

wow, this is brilliant Rob. Can't beat a Scottish ballad sung the way it was meant to be sung...thanks for this one mate, a beautiful honest reading

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Some of these old Scottish melodies are heartbreaking... as I said to you earlier
the Dick Gaughan version on the song is pure magic.

The original child ballad has the father of the young man casting the eye
over the young girl to see if she is suitable for his son... Happy ending.... they get hitched.

In the Sir Walter Scott song the young girl does not want to be
forced into an arranged marriage and abandons wealth and fame
to elope with the man she loves... this appeals to me perhaps because of
the rebellious free spirit of the girl when she chooses the sacred over the profane.

A third twist to the story is done by Kate Rusby who uses the same motifs except,
the young girl expects to marry a young knight but on her supposed wedding day,
he marries another woman, and she is left jilted and heartbroken.

Great melancholy song, taken from her album "The girl who couldn't fly"