"Brown Robyn's Confession" (Roud 3882, Child 57) is an English-language folk song.
Our Blessed Lady, with her "dear young son", appears to him and asks him if he would return to his men or come to heaven with her and her child.
This is the only instance in the ballad collection of a very common folk legend, of the Virgin Mary.
[1] This is also found in Norway, Denmark, and Sweden, but the ballad usually ends tragically for the hero; only one instance saves him, also by a supernatural intervention.
[1] The motif of the lots and throwing a person from the ship may be derived from the tale of Jonah.