Editing Tam Lin (section)

===Field recordings===
The ballad has been recorded several times from Scottish and Northern Irish people who learned it in the oral tradition. [[Eddie Butcher]] of [[Magilligan]], [[County Londonderry]] knew a fragment of the ballad which can be heard via the [[Irish Traditional Music Archive]],<ref>{{Cite web|last=Archive|first=Irish Traditional Music|date=2021-03-09|title=Saturday night is Halloween night, song / Eddie Butcher|url=https://www.itma.ie/digital-library/sound/saturday-night-is-halloween-night-eddie-butcher|access-date=2021-03-09|website=ITMA|language=en|archive-date=1 July 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210701173233/https://www.itma.ie/digital-library/sound/saturday-night-is-halloween-night-eddie-butcher|url-status=dead}}</ref> and [[Paddy Tunney]] of [[Mallybreen|Mollybreen]], [[County Fermanagh]] sang a version to [[Hugh Shields]] in 1968.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Saturday Night is Hallowe'en Night (Roud Folksong Index S251048)|url=https://www.vwml.org/record/RoudFS/S251048|access-date=2021-03-09|website=The Vaughan Williams Memorial Library|language=en-gb}}</ref> In Scotland, [[Duncan Williamson]] of [[Auchtermuchty]], [[Fife|Fifeshire]],<ref>{{Cite web|title=Tam Lin (Roud Folksong Index S336896)|url=https://www.vwml.org/record/RoudFS/S336896|access-date=2021-03-09|website=The Vaughan Williams Memorial Library|language=en-gb}}</ref> William Whyte of [[Aberdeen]]<ref>{{Cite web|title=Tam Lin (Roud Folksong Index S332203)|url=https://www.vwml.org/record/RoudFS/S332203|access-date=2021-03-09|website=The Vaughan Williams Memorial Library|language=en-gb}}</ref> and Betsy Johnston of [[Glasgow]]<ref>{{Cite web|title=Tam Lin (Roud Folksong Index S162763)|url=https://www.vwml.org/record/RoudFS/S162763|access-date=2021-03-09|website=The Vaughan Williams Memorial Library|language=en-gb}}</ref> all had traditional versions recorded, the latter two by [[Hamish Henderson]].