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Auld Robin Gray is the title of a Scots ballad written by the Scottish poet Lady Anne Lindsay in 1772. Robin Gray is a good old man who marries a young woman already in love with a man named Jamie. Jamie goes away to sea in order to earn money so that the couple can marry. The woman who narrates the ballad tells the story of being compelled by her parents’ misfortune to marry Robin Gray while her lover is away. Robin promises to maintain her and her parents in return for her hand.