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Auld Robin Gray

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lover is away. Robin promises to maintain her and her parents in return for her hand. Jamie returns a few weeks after the marriage, looking like a ghost. They have a sad reunion, kiss and tear themselves away from each other. The woman resolves to do her best to be a good wife to Robin, though she is extremely sad at the loss of her true love.
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Robin Gray is a good old man who marries a young woman already in love with a man named Jamie. Jamie goes away to sea in order to earn money so that the couple can marry. The woman, who narrates the ballad, tells the story of being compelled by her parents' misfortune to marry Robin Gray while her
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alludes to this song but revises the relationships between characters so that the Scottish heroine's virtue is redeemed. In Harte's story, the woman remains faithful to her betrothed, also named Jamie, until he breaks their engagement. She marries for love, not money. An explicit reference to the
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song occurs in chapter two, during a discussion of nicknames. Wealthy American Robert Gray observes that he would be called Robin Gray in Scotland, and in the brief exchange that follows, another character insists that Robin Gray in the song is "
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to arrange the ballad for piano and soprano, as well as for piano, violin, cello, and soprano. Twentieth century American composer
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in 1772. According to the Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women, Lindsay's song began as a song sung by
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Elizabeth Ewan; Sue Innes; Siân Reynolds; Rose Pipes (2006). "Barnard, Lady Anne, n. Lindsay".
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Fo'c's'le Yarns: An Uncensored Edition of Four Manx Narratives in Verse
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Thankful Blossom and Other Eastern Tales and Sketches
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Flute Music by Women Composers: An Annotated Catalog
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Scots
ballad
Scottish
Lady Anne Lindsay
Sophia Johnston
William Leeves
Joseph Haydn
Marjorie Rusche
Mary Wollstonecraft
Maria
Bret Harte
Bartleby
Sheet Music for Auld Robin Gray
Fo'c's'le Yarns: An Uncensored Edition of Four Manx Narratives in Verse
ISBN
978-0-7618-1215-9
The biographical dictionary of Scottish women
Edinburgh University Press
ISBN
978-0-7486-1713-5
Flute Music by Women Composers: An Annotated Catalog
ISBN
978-0-313-36831-8
Google Books
Stub icon
poem
stub
expanding it
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