Babylon (ballad)

Previous editors have attempted to find a local habitation for this tradition, and have associated it with the family of Drummond, of Perth.

As a legend exactly similar is current in Denmark, this appears a bootless quest.An outlaw comes upon three sisters in the woods.

[4] Betsy Miller of Scotland sang a traditional version of the song, presumably learnt from her Scottish family or community, with her famous son Ewan MacColl on the 1960 album A Garland Of Scots Folksong;[5][6] only three other Scottish recordings were made.

[14][15] Following are some of the notable recordings of the ballad, including the artists, titles, albums, and years: The artist Charles Hodge Mackie contributed the woodblock illustration By the Bonnie Banks o' Fordie to The Evergreen: A Northern Seasonal, The Book of Winter, published by Patrick Geddes and Colleagues in 1896.

The woodblock composition was subsequently worked up as an oil painting which was exhibited at the Royal Scottish Academy in 1897.