This article is about the song. For other uses, see Mary Hamilton (disambiguation).
"Mary Hamilton" or, "The Fower Maries"
Song
Published
16th Century
Genre
Child Ballad
Songwriter(s)
Anonymous
"Mary Hamilton", or "The Fower Maries" ("The Four Marys"), is a common name for a well-known sixteenth-century ballad from Scotland based on an apparently fictional incident about a lady-in-waiting to a Queen of Scotland. It is Child Ballad 173 and Roud 79.
In all versions of the song, Mary Hamilton is a personal attendant to the Queen of Scots, but precisely which queen is not specified. She becomes pregnant by the Queen's husband, the King of Scots, which results in the birth of a baby. Mary kills the infant – in some versions by casting it out to sea[1] or drowning, and in others by exposure. The crime is seen and she is convicted. The ballad recounts Mary's thoughts about her life and her impending death in a first-person narrative.
Versions of the ballad have been recorded by a number of artists, including Joan Baez, The Corries, and Angelo Branduardi.[2]
^University of California, Fresno. "Mary Hamilton [Child 173]". Folklore ballads. Archived from the original on 21 June 2006. Retrieved 14 February 2012.
^"Mary Hamilton". Antiwar songs. Retrieved 24 May 2020.
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