Lock the Door, Lariston
Lock the Door, Lariston is a border ballad by the Scottish poet James Hogg, the "Ettrick Shepherd", first published in 1811. It describes a sixteenth-century armed raid by English border reivers across the Anglo-Scottish border, met and defeated by Scottish borderers led by Jock Elliott of Lariston. Written in a traditional form, it was set to music by the 1850s, and is now a commonly performed Scottish folk song.
Q2910735
border ballad
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Q941810
James Hogg
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border reivers
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Anglo-Scottish border
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Scottish folk song
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Lock the Door, Lariston
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1811-01-01T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
1811
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1850-01-01T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
1850
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