Willie o Douglas Dale
{{short description|Traditional song}}
{{1r|date=June 2015}}
{{Infobox musical composition
| name = Willie o Douglas Dale
| genre = Folk
| form = Ballad
| language = English
| composed = Somewhere between in the 17th and 18th century
}}
Willie o Couglas Dale or Willie O Douglas Dale (Roud 65, Child 101) is a traditional English-language folk song.Francis James Child, English and Scottish Popular Ballads, [http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/eng/child/ch101.htm "Willie o Couglas Dale"]
Synopsis
Willie goes to court, and he and a lady fall in love. When she is pregnant, they flee, but she goes in labor on the way, and gives birth to a son. They go on with the child and reach his father's lands.
Motifs
This ballad contains elements from "Willie and the Earl Richard's Daughter" and to a lesser extent "Leesome Brand".Francis James Child, The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, v 2, p 406, Dover Publications, New York 1965