John of Hazelgreen or Jock o' Hazeldean (Roud 250, Child 293) is an English-language traditional folk song.
[1] Jock of Hazeldean is a poem and song by Sir Walter Scott based on a fragment of the ballad.
[3] 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.
The father of the groom tries to reconcile the woman to marrying his son, but she is utterly passive in the face of her prospective father-in-law's enticements, replying only by weeping.
However, at the very end of the song, she turns out to have been playing a waiting game; she has disappeared with her lover Jock O'Hazeldean, eloping across the English-Scottish border.