"Peter Gray" is an American ballad about a young man whose fiancee is sent out west (Ohio) after her father discovers their plan to wed.
The man goes west and is scalped by Indians.
[1] The song appears to date back to at least 1858.
[2] It was recorded by Burl Ives on March 3, 1941[3] for his debut album Okeh Presents the Wayfaring Stranger.
It has also been recorded by Ed McCurdy[4] and Mike Seeger, and by Tapio Rautavaara in Finnish (1952).