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John of Hazelgreen or Jock o' Hazeldean is Child ballad 293. Jock of Hazeldean is a poem and song by Sir Walter Scott based on a fragment of the ballad.[1] Versions of the ballad were published by Chambers, Kinloch and Buchan. The version printed by John S. Roberts (1887) was compiled from those of Kinloch and Buchan.[2]

Scott's Jock of Hazeldean was first published in 1816 in Alexander Campbell's Albyn's Anthology, printed alongside the tune to which it is now usually sung.[1]

  1. ^ a b Murdoch, Brian, "Who is Jock o Hazeldean?: The Various Lives of Walter Scott's Folksong", in Brown, Rhona and Lyall, Scott (eds.), Scottish Literary Review, Volume 14, Number 2, Autumn/Winter 2022, Association for Scottish Literature, pp. 111 - 126, ISSN 1756-5634
  2. ^ Roberts, John S., ed. (1887) The Legendary Ballads of England and Scotland. London: Frederick Warne; pp. 151-54

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