Mary Drummond

Mary Drummond (1675 – 1729) was a leading supporter of the Jacobites who wanted to bring a Catholic to the British throne.

[2] Her eldest son George Keith who became the tenth and the last Earl Marischal was born in 1692 or 1693.

Her other son James Francis Edward Keith who was born in 1696 was named after the Old Pretender and they both became soldiers.

[2] Drummond was buried at Holyrood Abbey after she died in Edinburgh on 7 March 1729.

[2] The song finishes with "My faither was a guid Lord’s son, my mither was an Earl’s daughter / And I will be Lady Keith again, the day oor King comes o’er the water".