Johnie Cock (also Johnny O'Breadisley or Jock o' Braidislee) is a traditional Scottish folk ballad, listed as the 114th Child Ballad and number 69 in the Roud Folk Song Index.
[1] Johnie Cock is warned by his mother that he is in danger but nevertheless goes poaching and kills a deer.
A man (sometimes a palmer, a medieval European pilgrim to the Holy Land) betrays him to foresters, who attack him while he sleeps.
Many recordings made by in the 1930s by James Madison Carpenter of traditional Aberdeenshire singers can be heard on the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library website, including versions by Bell Duncan of Ythan Wells[2] and John Strachan of Fyvie[3] (who was later recorded singing the song by Alan Lomax).
The Corries also recorded and performed the song a number of times, using the title "Jock O’ Braidislee".