Lord Saltoun and Auchanachie (Child 239, Roud 102), is a Scottish folk song. Synopsis Its heroine, Jeannie, is to be married off at the insistence of her father to a wealthy man, Lord Saltoun, but she is in love with Annachie Gordon, the subject of the song. The song chronicles her resistance to the marriage before she is eventually dragged to the church. Jeannie refuses to sleep in the same bed until her father comes down and tells her maidens to undo her gown. Jeannie collapses at her father's feet and dies for love of Annachie. Annachie, having been away at sea, returns where Jeannie's distressed maidens tell him that Jeannie has been married in his absence and has now died of a broken heart. Annachie tells the maidens to take him to the chamber where Jeannie lies and then, having kissed her cold lips, also dies of a broken heart. Versions The words were printed in Maidment's "North Countrie Garland" (1824) and in Buchan's "Ancient Ballads and Songs 2" (1828). The tune was first printed in Bronson's "Traditional Tunes of the Child Ballads". The story features a classic version of star crossed lovers (most often associated with "Romeo and Juliet"), with the two dying at the end. Sometime between 1800 and 1829 a broadsheet ballad called "A New Song" was printed. In it the name "Auchanachie Gordon" has been replaced by "Hannah Le Gordon" but is otherwise very similar. It is hard to explain why the hero has been given a girl's name. Perhaps the Scots name was so unfamiliar to the Newcastle printer than he made a somewhat garbled choice of name. Nic Jones recorded his version of the song as Annachie Gordon on his 1977 album The Noah's Ark Trap (1977). Mary Black included it using the same name on the album Mary Black. Loreena McKennitt recorded it on Parallel Dreams (1989). Other versions include June Tabor's on Always (2005), Sharon Shannon's on Libertango (2004), John Wesley Harding's on Trad Arr Jones (1999) and Oliver Schroer's instrumental version on Celtic Devotion (1999). Sinéad O'Connor also recorded a version on the Sharon Shannon Collection released in 2005, and Gabrielle Angelique recorded the song on her album Dance with the Stars (2006). The Unthanks 2009 album Here's the Tender Coming also contains a version. In the 1930s, Alan Lomax recorded Aunt Molly Jackson singing an American version she called