The Greig-Duncan Folk Song Collection from northeast Scotland, was the work of the schoolmaster and musician, Gavin Greig (1856–1914), and the minister James Bruce Duncan (1848-1917).
[2] A selection of the songs was published in 1925 under the title Last Leaves of Traditional Ballads and Ballad Airs collected in Aberdeenshire by the Late Gavin Greig.
This resulted in many songs being excluded from the 1925 edition and not being published until the 1980s.
However Greig and Duncan's method of collecting without editing is now recognized for its soundness.
[3] The collection as a whole was edited by Pat Shuldham-Shaw (and then Emily Lyle) following the rediscovery of Duncan's notebooks in the 1960s.