Young Beichan

Young Beichan

"Young Beichan" is a ballad, which with a number of variants and names such as "Lord Baker", "Lord Bateman", and "Young Bekie", was collected by Francis James Child in the late nineteenth century, and is included in the Child ballad as number 53 (Roud 40).

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    “Lord Bateman prepared for another marriage,
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