"Captain Wedderburn's Courtship", also known as "Lord Roslin's Daughter" and "The Laird of Rosslyn's Daughter" is a narrative Scottish ballad dating from 1785 or earlier. It appears in F. J. Child The English and Scottish Popular Ballads as #46 and the Roud Folk Song Index as #36. The song was collected in the United States, Scotland, Ireland, Canada, Australia. The first known publication, probably, dates from 1780s in The New British Songster. "The Riddle Song" is a shortened version that is condensed to only one set of riddles and the back-story has been ignored. Click here for an index of Child ballads. It was recorded by Ewan MacColl on The English and Scottish Popular Ballads (The Child Ballads) Volume IV (1956) and on Ballads: Murder·Intrigue·Love·Discord (2009), Ian and Sylvia as "Captain Woodstock's Courtship" (1964), Tim Hart and Maddy Prior on Folk Songs of Old England Vol. 2 (1968), Jean Redpath on Jean Redpath (1975), The Great Big Sea on Turn (as "Captain Wedderburn"), Willie Clancy on Songs of Courtship & Marriage (1988) as "The Song of the Riddles", Cara Luft on The Light Fantastic (2007) (as "Lord Roslyn's daughter"), Bellowhead on Hedonism (2010), Séamus Ennis on Good People, Take Warning : Ballads by British and Irish Traditional Singers (2012) (as "Captain Wedderburn") and by many others.