Lord Maxwell's Last Goodnight
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Lord Maxwell’s Last Goodnight is Child ballad 195. Although Lord Maxwell did historically kill Sir James Johnstone as the culmination of a feud, the song appears to be entirely invented.
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Lady Maxwell asks her husband to come with her into the garden. He tells her that he killed the laird Johnstone, who killed his father, and must flee. He bids a tender farewell to her, the rest of his family, and Scotland, and is escorted off to his ship by a great company.
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