Bonny Baby Livingston
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Bonny Baby Livingston or Bonny Baby Livingstone is Child ballad number 222, existing in many variants.
In some variants this lover, Johny Hay, arrives, she escapes through a window, and they make their get-away, but in most, he arrives to find her dead, and is able only to kiss her dead lips and curse her kidnapper.
Synopsis
Barbara, Barbra, Annie, or Baby Livingstone is kidnapped by Glenlion (or Glenlyon or Linlyon or Glendinning) and, in most variants, raped (before or after he carries her home). She gets a letter to her love at Dundee, by hiring a young boy.In some variants this lover, Johny Hay, arrives, she escapes through a window, and they make their get-away, but in most, he arrives to find her dead, and is able only to kiss her dead lips and curse her kidnapper.