Lochhead frequently sang that song together. Margaret Pollock afterwards lived in family with William Lochhead, Ryveraes, and she and Mrs. She was the eldest daughter of Matthew Pollock (3rd) of Boghall, by his second marriage (mentioned in the Memoir of the Tannahills) and it is very probable the Poet beheld such an evening as he had described, in walking from Paisley over the high road to his uncle’s farm steading in Beith Parish. The heroine of this song was Margaret Pollock, a cousin of the Author by the mother’s side. ( in ‘The Poems and Songs of Robert Tannahill’ – 1874 assigned as a “Sleeping Maggie” melody.) From the tradition of “night visiting songs” the text is attributed to the Scottish poet Robert Tannahill and in fact various findings place the story in the woods of Paisley.
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