Jamie Douglas (song)

"Jamie Douglas" (Roud 87, Child 204) is a traditional English-language folk song, existing in more than 80 different variants according to the Roud Folk Song Index (such as "The Water Is Wide/Waly Waly"). This ballad is believed to refer to the ostensibly unhappy first marriage of James Douglas, 2nd Marquess of Douglas to Lady Barbara Erskine.