[2] A couple of decades later, a song called "Peggy Gordon" was mentioned in Fitz-Hugh Ludlow's story The Primpenny Family.
The story was published in serial form in the magazine Vanity Fair in 1861, mentioning the song in chapter VI in a conversation between Mr. Kineboy and Miss Primpenny:[3] "Did ye ever hear tell o' Peggy Gordon, my dear?"
[6] The song tells a story of a man who is madly in love with a woman of this name and how he longs to be with her.
[7] In 1938, a song called Sweet Peggy Gordon was recorded by Herbert Halpert in Sloatsburg, New York.
[13] It was recorded by Charles Jordan on the 9-LP set Canadian Folk songs, A Centennial Collection in 1966, issued in 1967.