Artist: Ewan MacColl
Author: trad./Robert Burns
Label: Dionysus
Year: 1968

On lp Songs From Robert Burns. Roud #1273. Song about the whereabouts of 17th century presbyterian preacher David Williamson (who died in 1706), whose seven marriages asked to be mocked about. Bawdy songs were written on his count, one even with words of Robert Burns.

While trying to flee a squadron of Dragoons, the honorable Rev. desperately seeked refuge with a female friend, who hid him in the bed of her daughter. How long it took him (or them, for the daughter was with him in that bed) to hide there is not known, but long enough to be forced to marry the child in the end. The song reflects the daughter's viewpoint; it's she who called him Dainty Davie.