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 ====== The Geud Man of Ballangigh ======
-As in "The Playford Ball"    Tune "Hunt the Squirrel"\\
+As in "The Playford Ball"  \\
+Tune "Hunt the Squirrel"\\
 Cecil Sharp, 1922\\
+Duple minor Longways\\
 Recording: {{ ::music:geud_man_of_ballangigh-068-bn12pb13.mp3.zip |}}\\
 {{ ::music:hunt_the_squirrel_geud_man_of_ballangigh_--thp--047.mp3.zip |}}\\
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-The title is said to refer variously to King James V or James VI, from the apocryphal tale of his going about the countryside dressed as a beggar in order to mingle with his subjects to hear what they were saying about his governance. The discredited legend endures, if only as a piece of Victorian indulgence.
+In her biography of James V, Caroline Bingham discusses the stories
+of his incognito wanderings, Which are part of the popular history of
+Scotland and are very much more reminiscent of folktales than of biographical anecdotes.
+In the classic form of the old English tale, "The King and the Miller of
+Mansfield," several stories are told about James's meeting with a countryman,
+and identifying himself only as the "gudeman of Ballengiech [sic]"--
+meaning a tenant in the hollow on the north side of Stirling Castle, his
+own residence. Credit for these stories may need to be given to Sir Walter Scott,
+nineteenth- century romantic and orchestrator of King George IV's
+visit to Scotland in 1822, for which many of today's "authentic" Scottish
+traditions were invented. In the same decade, William H. Murray developed
+the story into a full-length play, Cramond Brig; o" the Gudeman O'Ballangeich.