Sir Patrick Spens

Stained-glass window by Charles Cameron Baillie, c.1930

"Sir Patrick Spens" is one of the most popular of the Child Ballads (No. 58) (Roud 41), and is of Scottish origin.[1] It is a maritime ballad about a disaster at sea.

  1. ^ Francis James Child, English and Scottish Popular Ballads, "Sir Patrick Spens"

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