Lord Saltoun and Auchanachie (Child 239, Roud 102), also known as Annachie Gordon, is a Scottish ballad.
[1] At the insistence of her father, Jeannie is to be married off to the wealthy Lord Saltoun, but she is in love with Annachie (or Auchanachie) Gordon.
When Jeannie refuses to sleep with Lord Saltoun, her father orders her handmaidens to strip her.
At this point Annachie returns from a sea voyage and hears from Jeannie's handmaidens that, in his absence, she has been forcibly married and died of a broken heart.
The words were printed in Maidment's "North Countrie Garland" (1824) and in Buchan's "Ancient Ballads and Songs 2" (1828).
Nic Jones recorded his version of "Annachie Gordon" on his 1977 album The Noah's Ark Trap (1977).
"O Salton's [a] valley lies low by the sea, He's bowed on the back, and thrawin on the knee;" ..... ..... "O Salton's a valley lies low by the sea; Though he's bowed on the back and thrawin on the knee, Though he's bowed on the back and thrawin on the knee, The bonny rigs of Salton they're nae thrawin tee" "O you that are my parents to church may me bring, But unto Salton I'll never bear a son; For son or for daughter, I'll ne'er bow my knee, And I'll die if I getna my love Auchanachie."
When Jeanie was married, from church was brought hame, When she wi her maidens sae merry shoud hae been, When she wi her maidens sae merry shoud hae been, She's called for a chamber, to weep there her lane.
Then out spake her father, he spake wi renown; "Some of you that are her maidens, ye'll loose aff her gown; Some of you that are her maidens, ye'll loose aff her gown; And I'll mend the marriage wi' ten thousand crowns."
He'd entice any woman and so he has done me, Oh never will I forget my love Annachie Down came her father, standing on the floor, Saying, "Jeanie, you're trying the tricks of a whore.
With gold to my head and with gowns fringed to the knee, Oh I'll die if I don't get my love Annachie.
And he's kissed her cold lips until his heart turned to stone, And he's died in the chamber where his true love lay in.