Jamie Douglas (song)

"Jamie Douglas" is Child Ballad 204, existing in numerous variants, such as "The Water Is Wide/Waly Waly". In the Roud Folk Song Index it is number 87, with more than 80 listed variants. This ballad is believed to refer to the ostensibly unhappy first marriage of James Douglas, 2nd Marquess of Douglas to Lady Barbara Erskine.

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