"The Lass of Loch Royal", also known as "Lord Gregory", "A-Roving On A Winter's Night",
"Roving On Last Winter's Night", "Who's Goin' to Shoe Your Pretty Little Foot",
"Who's Gonna Shoe Your Pretty Little Foot", "Sweet Annie of Roch Royal", "Annie of Rough Royal" or
"Annie of Lochryan" is an English ballad. In America it is often called "The Lass of Roch Royal".
It was included in F. J. Child's collection The English and Scottish Popular
Ballads (1882-1898) as #76. The song has had a wide distribution and there are many variations.
Some versions are short fragments and have morphed into what should be considered separate songs.
Some of the verses have also been incorporated into unrelated songs.
It was printed in Child's The English and Scottish Popular Ballads (1882-1898), Belden's Ballads and Songs Collected by the Missouri Folk-Lore Society (1955), Bronson's The Traditional Tunes of the Child Ballads (1959-1972), Greig's Folk-Song in Buchan and Folk-Song of the North-East (1963), Gummere's Old English Ballads (1894, 1897), Randolph's Ozark Folksongs (1946-1950), MacColl and Seeger's Travellers' Songs From England and Scotland (1977), Niles' The Ballad Book of John Jacob Niles (1961), Sandburg's The American Songbag (1927), Seeger's Folk Songs of Peggy Seeger (1964), Shaw, Lyle and Petrie, ed.s, The Greig-Duncan Folk Song Collection, Volume 6 (1995), Silber and Silber's Folksinger's Wordbook (1973) and many other publications. |