The Laird o Drum (Roud 247, Child 236) is an English-language folk song, originating in Scotland.
[1] Francis James Child collected six versions, labeled A to F, all based on Alexander Irvine's courtship of and marriage to Margaret Coutts, his second wife.
[2] Though the events depicted in the ballad took place in the late 1600s, the earliest version of the ballad dates back to the early 1800s.
The lord of Drum goes to woo a shepherd lass.
The lord says that his brother wedded a wife to spend money, and he a wife to work and win; he had a lady of higher birth than he was, and she treated him as lowly.