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BON GRENADIER, LE -- Jack LE FEUVRE rec by PK, Sark, Channel Islands 3/5/57: FTX-213 & FTX-245

BON MARAIN, LE - (The Fine Seaman) - BUJEAUD, J. "Chants et chansons populaires des provinces de l'ouest", Niort, 1895 Vol 1. p.300."Sont trois jeunes cadets" . It concerns a soldier rather than a sailor, but the narrative is similar. A better-known version which has closer textual similarities to "Le bon marain" is "Celine", recorded and popularised by Edith Piaf. - MORAND: 1936 p24 "C'etait un jeune marin" (Hede) - KENNEDY FSBI 1975 #101 Gallienne -- Male Chorus (+ accordion) Sark 14/6/38: RPL 1835 - John GALLIENNE, rec by PK, Torteval, Guernsey 6/5/57: RPL 23844/ FTX-012

BONAPARTE - BONEY - NAPOLEON - ISLE OF St HELENA

BONAPARTE - - Shape-note Hymn -- SOUTHERN TRADITIONAL SINGERS: ROUNDER 0094 1978

BONAPARTE ON St HELENA - NAPOLEON ON St HELENA

BONAPARTE IN RUSSIA - BONEY IN RUSSIA

BONAPARTE'S ADVANCE - Hornpipe/ Set Dance (A=8 & B=12 bars) (G) - CRANITCH #93 p163 - KERR MM 4 #267 p29 - O'NEILL MOI #1788/ DMI #982 (A) "Madam Bonaparte" - MOYLAN 2 #22 p13 "MB" from John O Leary (melodeon) - WILLIAMSON p87 "MB" - KENNEDY FTB 1998 #21 p8 (A) -- THE GALLOWGLASS CEILI BAND: PICKWICK Hallmark HM-532 1965 - Finbar FUREY: TRANSATLANTIC XTRA- 1077 1969 - Sean MAGUIRE (fid) with Eilis Ni MHARCAIGH (piano): GAEL-LINN CEF-011 nd - DRUIDS (mandolin): ARGO ZFB-22 1970 with "Roxburgh Castle" - Billy PIGG (N-pipes): LEADER LEA-4006 1971 (M) - Alistair ANDERSON (Engl conc): LEADER LER-2074 1972 from Billy Pigg - Geof PURVIS (fid) & Alan COULSON (acc): TOPIC 12-TS-267 1976 - KESTY rec 1980: FTX-240

BONAPARTE'S DEFEAT or RETREAT - NAPOLEON ON St HELENA

BONAPARTE'S DEFEAT - Set Dance (Am) - O NEILL MOI #1710/ DMI #902 (Am) "Bonaparte's Defeat" - ROCHE 2 #231 p17 (Am) "Bonaparte's March" -- Bernard O Sullivan & Tommy Mc MAHON (concertinas) Co Clare: TOPIC 12-TFRS-502 1975

BONAPARTE'S FAREWELL TO PARIS - "Farewell ye splendid citadel - so towering grand and charming" - ROUD#1626 - BSs

BONAPARTE'S GRAND MARCH - NAPOLEON'S GRAND MARCH

BONAPARTE'S GRAND WALTZ - NAPOLEON'S GRAND WALTZ

BONAPARTE'S HORNPIPE - NAPOLEON'S HORNPIPE

BONAPARTE'S RETREAT - NAPOLEON'S RETREAT

BONAVIST LINE, THE - "As I roved out one morning in May" - "This old man he gazed on him he was so surprised" - ROUD#5206 - PEACOCK SNO 1965 3 pp768-771 Everett Bennett 1959/ John Mahoney 1959 Nfl - RIVERHEAD LINE

BONDAI HILLS -- Tony FRANKLIN (ocarina) rec by PK, Totnes, Devon: 124

BONDSEY & MAISRY - YOUNG BENJIE

BONDUCANI, IL - WILSON p106 (Bb) (with dance descr)

BONE LACE WEAVER, THE -- MUCKRAM WAKES: LEADER LER-2085 1973

BONEDDWR MAWR OR BALA - (A Squire from Bala) - JWFSS - KENNEDY FSBI 1975 -- John THOMAS & his daughter, Elizabeth, rec by PK, Llangwm,Corwen, Denbighsh 9i/11/54 learned from Matthew Owen, Cwnafon Llanbedr, Merioneth: RPL 22341/ FTX-051 - Andrew THOMAS rec by Seamus Ennis, Pen Cnwc, Fishguard, Pembrokesh 1/9/53: RPL 20193/ FTX-052

BONE-LACE WEAVER, THE - Source: W: Leonard Wheatcroft, Ashover, Derbysh c1650/ tune by Roy Harris; tune in middle is THE MALLARD (Devon) -- MUCKRAM WAKES: LEADER LER-2085 1973

BONE-SETTER, THE - Humorous Song comp by GM 1970 -- Graeme MILES (unacc): FTX-222

BONES, RATTLES & SPOONS - see ED&S mag 40/I 1978 p14 contrib by Nicholas Driver - RAGS AND BONES - SKIN AND BONE LADY -- Recordings - see INSTRUMENTS LIST

BONEY - BONAPARTE - BONAPARTE'S DEFEAT - NAPOLEON - NAPOLEON ON THE ISE OF St HELENA

BONEY IN RUSSIA - Hornpipe - Tunebook Ms (G) #26 p97 - KENNEDY FTB 1998 #15 p6 (D) - Cf O'NEILL -/980 "Bonaparte's Retreat" (Set Dance)

BONEY WAS A WARRIOR "Way ay ah" - "Jean Francois" - Sea Shanty - ROUD#485 - BULLEN-ARNOLD 1914 #31 p26 (1v only) - DAVIS-TOZER 1887 p25 - WHALL p110 - SMITH MOW 1888p36 & 53 - FOX-SMITH 1927 pp32-3 - GRAINGER #211 Charles Rosher, Chelsea, London 1907 - SHARP EFC 1914 #49 p54 "Bony was a warrior" from John Short, Watchet Som & SHARP Ms: George Conway, London 1914 - TERRY SB 1 p54 - BONE CB 1931 pp42-3 - DUNSTAN CSB 1 p59 - HUGILL 1961 p445 - HUGILL 1969 p194-5 --- COLCORD SAS pp56-7 - SHAY AS&S 1925 p84 (w/o) - DOERFLINGER SS&L 1972 pp5-7 -- James FOREMAN, Leith rec by James Carpenter 1928: FTX-141 (also rec from 4 other shantymen)

BONEY'S DEFEAT - BONAPARTE'S DEFEAT

BONEY'S HORNPIPE - BONAPARTE'S HORNPIPE

BONEY'S LAMENTATION - NAPOLEON'S LAMENTATION

BONFIRE, THE - Reel - BOYS OF TWENTY FIVE

BONFIRES - BARTLE BURNING - BUILD A BONFIRE - COB-COALING - GOOD FRIDAY - GUY FAWKES -- Jim Lloyd talk: Radio 2 11/82 CASS-0473

BONNET, THE - Reel -- John WRIGHT (jaws harp): TOPIC 12-TS-230 1794

BONNET SO BLUE, THE - "In Manchester town - in fair Lancashire" - Lancash or Yorksh girl meets soldier - bonny Scots lad - ROUD#819 - BSs "Bonnet so blue" incl SBG 2:#123/ 4:#272/ 7:#15/ 9:#185 - VOC LIB 1822 p537 - LOGAN PP 1869 - KIDSON TT 1891 pp118-9 A Wardill, Goathland, Yorksh (notes on song) "The Bonny Scotch Lad" - FORD VSB 1899 p212/ 2 p1-3 Katie Craigie, Perthsh (w/o) "In Greenwillow a town in Yorkshire" - DUNCAN Ms W133 M66 "My Bonny Scotch Laddie" 11v/m - GREIG FSNE art #105 "Bonnet o' Blue" - GREIG-DUNCAN 3 1987 #524 4v (w/o) & 4 1990 #856 2var/m - GREIG-DUNCAN 5 1995 #992 p189-198 10var 11v/7m - SHARP-KARPELES CSC 1974 #384 2 pp556-7 Wm Briffet, Bridgwater, Somerset 1907 - HENRY #644 (6 v) - ORD BB 1930 pp295-6 (w/o) As Ford - JFSS 8 1930 pp191-2 Hammond: Mrs Baggs, Cheddington, Dorset "My Bonny Scotch Laddy"- JEFDSS 1931 p191 - HOLLOWAY-BLACK LEBB 2 1979 pp21-22 Evans BS London (w/o) "Scotch Laddie" ("in Yorkshire") --- HUNTINGTON SWS 1964 pp275- 7 ships log 1856 (w/o) - CREIGHTON FSSNB 1971 pp97-100 Angelo Dornan 1954-60 "His Jacket was blue" -- Jean MATTHEW rec by Seamus Ennis, Longside, Aberdeensh 1952: RPL 18781/ CAEDMON TC-1164/ TOPIC 12-T-196/ FTX-518 (11v) Ass 24/10/66

BONNET(S) SO BLUE, THE - Jig (D) - KERR MM 2 #312 p34 3pts (D) - Tunebook Ms #011 p174 "Hurrah for the Bonnets so Blue" - KENNEDY FTB 1 1951 p47/ 1994 #185 p47 -- Stephen BALDWIN (fid) rec by PK, Upton Bishop, Herefordsh 1952: FTX-115 - Jim SMALL (harmonica) rec Cheddar, Somerset 1980: FTX-138 - William KIMBER (A-conc) rec by PK, Headington, Oxford 1956: FTX-384 - ALBION Band with Eddie Upton dancing "Son of Morris-on": EMI SHSM 2012 [1976] - OLD SWAN BAND FREE REED FRR-011 1976 with "Starry Night" (2 versions) & "Uncle (George)'s Jig" - John KIRKPATRICK dances Morris jig: CHRYSALIS CHR-1199 1978

BONNET TRIMMED WITH BLUE, THE - I HAVE A BONNET

BONNEVILLE DAM - comp by Woody Guthrie -- Cisco HOUSTON: VANGUARD SRL 7624 1965

BONNIEST LASS IN A' THE WORLD, THE - Scots Song - ROUD#8304 - HERD A&MSS 1869/1973 1 p197-8 - SMITH SM 3 p74 - CHRISTIE TBA 2 pp116-7 "BL in a the land"

BONNIEST LASS IN A' THE WORLD, THE - Air/ Strathspey - KENNEDY FTB#2 Reels pub Mallinson 1997 #8 p4 (A) - Tunebook Ms #146 p228 4/4 (G) - COLE p123 (D) "Bonniest lass in AYER"(Ayr?) - Cf BARNYARDS O DELGATY

BONNY ANN(E) - Reel - BREATHNACH CRE 3 #150 p70 (D) - KENNEDY FTB 1 p19 - Tunebook Ms (Am) #1 p267 - BREATHNACH CRE 1 #107 p45 alt titles incl: "The Crooked Reel" & "Follow me down to Carlow" -- Michael GORMAN (fid) & Margaret BARRY (banjo) rec by PK, London 1956: FTX-174 - Jim McHARDY (acc solo) BELTONA/ FTX-363 - McCARTHY family: Jackie McCARTHY (conc), Marion (U-pipes) & young Tommy McCARTHY (fid) rec 1982 RTE radio prog 9/11/88 CASS-60-0899 --- Alex Francis McKAY (fid) Cape Breton: TOPIC 12-TS-353 1978

BONNY ANNE - Hornpipe - O'NEILL MOI #1771 (not in DMI) (G) - different from BONNIE ANNIE

BONNY ANNIE - "O it's of a young sea captain" - seaside - farmer's daughter - pregnant - get father's gold - CHILD #24 "Bonnie Annie" ("BA") - ROUD#172 - GREIG-DUNCAN 6 1995 #1225 pp419-420 2var 9v/1m "BA" - GREIG-KEITH LLTB 1925 pp23 James M Brown, Glasgow 2v/m/ Bell Robertson, New Pitsligo, Aberdeensh (w/o) "BA" - BARING GOULD Ms #125 "The Undutiful Daughter" (a) J Masters HFS Bradstone 1889 (b) Richard Gregory FWB Postbridge 1890 (c) S Fone (frag) (d) Roger Hannaford, Widecombe (unpubl) - SHARP Cf 1 p237 - SHARP-MARSON FSS 1 pp28-29 & pp63-64 Lucy White (notes on song) - SHARP-KARPELES CSC 1974 1 #6 pp28-9 Elizabeth Mogg, Holford/ Mrs Overd, Langport/ Wm Spearing, Ile Brewers/ Lizzie Welsh, Hambridge 1904 1v/m/ Louie Hooper, Hambridge 1908/ Jane Gulliford, Coombe Florey, Somerset 1908/ Wm Nott, Meshaw, Devon 1904 1v/m - JFSS 2:6 1905 pp33-7 Sharp: Louie Hooper & Lucy Whie/ Wm Spearing/ Lizzie Welch 1v/m/ Mrs Overd/ Elizabeth Mogg/ (5 versions) coll Sharp - JFSS 3:13 1909 p292-3 RVW: David Clements, Basingstoke, Hampsh 1909 - WILLIAMS #85 George Grubb, Ewen, Gloucestersh (w/o) - REEVES IP 1958 #9 p72 Sharp: Elizabeth Mogg (w/o) - PENGUIN BEFS 1959 p15 Sharp: Mrs Overd - PURSLOW CL 1972 p4 Hammond: Henry Way, Bridport, Dorset 1906 - FMJ 1976 pp103-4 Butterworth: Mr & Mrs Cranstone, Billingshurst, Sussex 1907 (this version arranged for orchestra by George Butterworth)/ Mr Cornford, Chiltington, Sussex 1908 (m/o) - DAWNEY PG 1977 p12 Butterworth: Mr & Mrs Cranstone, Billingshurst, Sussex 1907 - PALMER RVW 1983 #31 p51-2 - SHARP SG 2003 p60 9v from Elizabeth Mogg "The Banks of Green Willow" -- Jean BARCLAY #049 rec on Dictaphone by James M.Carpenter N.E.Scotland 1929 - Mrs Teresa Maguire rec by Sean O Boyle & Diane Hamilton, Co Armagh 1958: RPL 24842/ CAEDMON TC-1162/ TOPIC 12-T- 194/ FTX-501 "The Green Banks of Yarrow" - - A L "Bert" LLOYD rec by AL & PK, London 22/4/51: FTX-056/ RIVERSIDE RLP-628 1956 (from Sharp) "Banks of Green Willow" - Martin CARTHY: PEGASUS PEG-12 from RVW coll - Nic JONES: LEADER LER-2027 1971 - Alison McMORLAND & Peta WEBB: TOPIC 12-TS-403 1980 - Cf "The Watery Grave"(Burlesque version by Sam Cowell 1850s): Fred JORDAN: TOPIC 12-T-150 1966 - Butterworth's orchestral arr RPL Radio 2 27/7/93 Georgina Boyes prog CASS - David CLEMENTS (?) phonograph rec by RVW 1909: EFDSS CD-02 1998

BONNY ANNIE - Clog Hornpipe - COLE p119 (E/Bb) Scotch - KENNEDY FTB 1998 #16 p7 (D & A)

BONNY ANNIE - Strathspey comp Daniel Gow (1732-83) -- Pipe Major Wm Ross, rec by Alan Lomax, Edinburgh Castle 1951: FTX-188 - CASS-0445 - SAYDISC (CD) SDL-416 1996 "Bagpipes of Britain & Ireland"- Jimmy STEWART (fid) rec by PK, Aberdeen 1955: FTX-069 - Alex Francis Mc KAY (fid) with Fr John Angus RANKIN (piano) rec by John Shaw, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada: TOPIC 12-TS-353 1978 with other Strathspeys & Reels

BONNY ANNIE LAURIE - ANNIE LAURIE

BONNY ANNIE LIVINGSTON - BONNY BABY LIVINGSTON (Child#222)

BONNY AT MORN - "The Sheep's in the meadows" - Northumbrian Song - ROUD#3064 - BRUCE-STOKOE NM 1882 Tune in major key - STOKOE-REAY SBNE 1899 pp66-67 - WHITTAKER NCB 1921 - Sylvia MOORE (with sansa & clarinet) rec by Bernard Broere, Amsterdam, Holland: FTX-425

BONNY AT MORN - Instrumental - Jack ARMSTRONG (N-pipes) rec by PK, Newcastle 1954: FTX-122/ CONCERT HALL SVSC-2339 1970/ FTX-330/ SAYDISC SDL-252 1972 aft "Noble Squire Dacre" & bef "My Boy Billy"/ SAYDISC (CD) SDL-416 1996 bef "Billy Boy" & "Earl of Derwentwater's Farewell"

BONNY BABY LIVINGSTON - "B Bawbie L gan oot to tak the air - and by it cam him Glenlivet and he's stown Bawbie awa" - when they reach Glenlivet's "Ilk an spake to the ither in Erse but Bawbie could speak nane", he forces her to lie with him so she asks for paper, pen and ink to write a letter to her own Geordie o Dundee, Geordie gets the letter and rides to Glenlivet "But ere he gets to the fit o the stair his nose began to bleed and ere he wan to the head o the stair his BB was deid" ending with "Deal ye weel at my love's lyke, the white bread and the wine, and ere the morn at this time, ye'll deal as well at mine" - CHILD #222 - ROUD#100 - MOTHERWELL - JAMIESON - WHITELAW BSB pp96-8 - BRONSON 4 p502 - GREIG- DUNCAN Coll 6 1995 #1264 pp526-8 3var 17v/1m - KINSLEY Oxford Bk of Ballads 1969 pp254-7 ""Bonnie Annie Livieston"

BONNY BALCAIRN - "There lives an auld man at the back o yon knowes" - ROUD#1101 - GREIG-DUNCAN 4 pp210-4

BONNY BANCHORY - Hornpipe comp Scott-Skinner (?) -- May CAMERON (acc & piano): FTX-363 - BANCHORY FIDDLERS rec Kinross Folk Festival 1975: SPRINGTHYME SPRC 1003/ CASS- 1313 1988 aft "East Neuk o Fife"

BONNY BANKS O AIRDRIE/ BARBRIE/ ELDRIE/ FORDIE/ VIRGIE - BABYLON

BONNY BANKS OF LOCH LOMOND, THE - LOCH LOMOND

BONNY BANKS OF THE ROSES, ON THE - BANKS OF RED ROSES

BONNY BANKS OF ROSS-SHIRE, THE - "As I was walking on the BB o R" - ROUD#5154 -- John McDONALD (voc/mel) rec by PK, Pitgaveny, Elgin, Moraysh 23/7/55: FTX-061 #18

BONNY BANKS OF UGIE, THE - "One evening in the gloaming a-roaming I did go" - ROUD#7206 - GREIG-DUNCAN 7 pp95-99

BONNY BARBARA ALLEN - BARBARA ALLEN

BONNY BARBARA-O - BONNY LASS O FYVIE

BONNY BAY OF BISCAY-O, THE - BAY OF BISCAY-O

BONNY BENACHIE - "How are ye a at hame, Mary?" - his letter asking about home and Mary to write - Aberdeensh - ROUD#6787 - GREIG-DUNCAN 6 1995 #1251 p494 8v w/o - LASS O BENNACHIE

BONNY BESSIE LEE - "Come to bed and cuddle me - draw the blankets over me - to keep your pussy warm" - McCOLL-SEEGER TDIA 1986 p213 from Belle Stewart (1v) says comp Robert Niccoll [1814-37] of Tulliebeltane

BONNY BETSY - BETSY BETRAYED

BONNY BLACK BESS - BLACK BESS

BONNY BIRD, THE - BONNY BONNY BOY

BONNY BLACK EEN - comp by Jeannie Robertson: TOCHER #44 1992 p124 "Jamesie's Air" rec by Wm Montgomery 1956

BONNY BLACK HARE, THE - "One morning in May (Summer/ Autumn) by the dawn of the day" - Seduction in guise of hunting - ROUD#1656 - Many BSs "The Black Hare"- SHARP-KARPELES 1974 #401 p591 Albert Stock, Temple Cloud, Somerset 1908 3v/m - PURSLOW CL 1972 pp9-10 Gardiner: Thomas Jones, Portsmouth, Hampsh 1907 9v/m -- Lemmie BRASIL (gypsy) rec by Mike Yates, Gloucester: TOPIC 12-TS-395 1985 - A L LLOYD & Dave SWARBRICK (fid): TOPIC 12-T-135 1966 - Martin CARTHY with Dave SWARBRICK (fid): FONTANA STL-5434 1967/- Martin CARTHY: FONTANA STL-5434 1967/ PHILIPS International 6382-022 1967 (from Lloyd?) -David DODDS with Ted VERGE (fid) rec by PK, Dartington Ciderhouse 1974: FTX-091

BONNY BLOOMING HIGHLAND JANE - HIGHLAND JANE

BONNY BLUE CAP - "Bold and true in bonnet blue" - BSs BG 5 #10

BONNY BLUE-EYED LASSIE, THE - "How can I live on the top of a mountain - without gold in my pocket or money for to count it?" - Song of True Love- CROININ 2000 #148 pp225-6 -- Elizabeth CRONIN rec by Seamus Ennis, Ballyvourney, Co Cork 1947: FTX-162/ CBE 3894a & 8/9/52: RPL 19021/ rec by Diane Hamilton 1955: FOUR COURTS CD-2 #9

BONNY BLUE-EYED LASSIE, THE - Mick O BRIEN (U-pipes in Bb) Instrumental: BOYS OF THE LOUGH CD-007 1999 bef Reels

BONNY BLUE EYES - "Don't cry, little bonnie, don't cry"- ROUD#762 -- Carter Family (trio) rec NY /6/36: DECCA 5304-A/ 7"RTR-0313-4 - Artus MOSER (Voc & dulc) rec S Appalachians RIVERSIDE RLP-12-617 1956

BONNY BLUE FLAG - "We are a band of brothers" - American - ROUD#4769 - BELDEN B&SM pp357-9 - BROWN NCFL 3 pp451-3 - RANDOLPH OFS 2 p261-2 - SILBER SS&HFB 1964 pp52-3

BONNY BLUE FLAG - Jig - KERR MM 3 #292 p32 (G)

BONNY BLUE HANDKERCHIEF, THE - "As early one morning I chanced for to stray" or "As I was a walking one morning in May" - "With a BBH tied under her chin" - ROUD#378 - Many BSs incl BG 5 #80 - GREIG-DUNCAN 1995 vol 5 #1040 pp431-2 3var 8v/1m "The Hanky" - BARING GOULD Orig & Rev Ed #40 Ms#37 (a) J Woodrich FWB 1888 (b) Barrett: Paul Jones (c) J Parsons SBG 1888 - BG-HITCHCOCK 1974 pp18-19 John Woodrich (1v added from BS) - WILLIAMS #436 David Sawyer, Ogbourne, Wiltsh (w/o) - HENRY SOP #161/ HUNTINGTON 1990 pp456-7 Wm Shaw, Portstewart, Co Derry 1926 & BS text - HAMER GGr 1973 p77 Luther Stanley, Barrow-on- Humber, Lincolnsh - PALMER EBECS 1979 pp150-151 Mike Yates: Harry Upton, Balcombe, Sussex 1974 3v/m rest from Fortey BS -- Dolly McMAHON rec by Seamus Ennis, Dublin 1960: RPL LP 29882 - Harry Upton rec by Mike Yates, Balcombe, Sussex 1975: TOPIC SP- 104

BONNY BLUE JACKET, THE - "Sure it happened one evening as I chanced to road" - ROUD#9260 - Many BSs incl BG 1 #97 & 5 #200 - BARING-GOULD SOW #40 "Blue Kerchief" from "Ginger Jack" (John Woodrich (note says Catnach issued oarody called "BBJ") - SHARP Ms from Charles Woodward, Ebrington, Oxon 1909 - HAMER 1973 p77 from Luke Stanley, Lincs - PALMER 1979 #87 p150 Mike Yates from Harry Upton, Balcombe, Sussex 23/11/74 - HENRY #161 "Pretty Blue Handkerchief" -- Mick McALINDEN rec PK, Rostrevor, Co Down 28/7/53: RPL 19352/ FTX-433 - Dolly McMAHON Dublin: RPL LP 29882 - Harry UPTON: TOPIC 12-TS-104 1978

BONNY BOGIE - "I hae a hoose aboon the mill" - ROUD#5645 - GREIG FSNE art #49 - GREIG-DUNCAN 4 pp376-8

BONNY BONNY BANKS, THE - BABYLON

BONNY BONNY BOY, THE - BONNY IRISH BOY - YOUNG AND GROWING

BONNY BONNY BOY, THE - "I once loved a boy and a bonny, bonny boy and I built him a berth on my breast" - (Altern title: CUPID'S TREPAN) - ROUD#6827 (#293) - PETRIE AMOI 1855 1 p78 - CHAPPELL PMOT 1858 2 p555 - KIDSON TT 1891/ GEF 1926 pp108-9 - BROADWOOD ECS 1893 pp146-7 Mrs Vaisey, Hampshire - BARING GOULD Ms #71 (a) Sam Fone (b) J Doidge (c) Robert Hard - SOW Rev Ed #106 "The Little Bonny Bird" & words of "The Jolly Goshawk" - GREIG-DUNCAN 6 1995 #1141 pp164-6 4var 4v/2m "The Bonny Boy I loved" - SHARP-KARPELES CSC 1974 #154 1 p589- 592 Sarah Smith, London 1907/ Elizabeth Smitherd, Tewkesbury, Gloucestersh 1908/ Mrs Truby, Headington, Oxford 1923/ Joseph Alcock, Sibford Gower, Oxfordsh 1922 - SHARP VC 1912 Gloucestersh/ Sel Ed I - JFSS 1:5 1904 p274 Merrick: Henry Hills, Lodsworth, Sussex "Many a night's rest" - JFSS 2:7 1905 pp82-4 Rev T Heelis, Kendal, Westmoreland 1905/ Mr Harper, Kings Lynn, Norfolk 1905 (m/o)/ Mr Hills, Lodsworth, Sussex 1901 1v/m - JFSS 3:11 1907 p85 Hammond: Mrs Russell, Upwey, Dorset 1907 - FSJ 34 1930 p184 (notes) - WILLIAMS FSUT 1923 p209 #176 William Wise, Alvescot, Oxfordsh - WILLIAMS #488 Mrs Phillips, Burton, Wiltsh (w/o) - KIDSON FSNC 1927 - GRAINGER Ms #311 Mrs Wixey, Buckland, Gloucestersh 1909 "Bold Bonny Boy" - HUGHES ICS 2 1914 p50 "I will walk with my love" Co Dublin frag 2v - HENRY SOP #215 - REEVES IOP 1958 p158 Sharp Eliz Smitherd (w/o) - REEVES EC 1960 p139-141 Baring Gould Ms: Sam Fone, Devon 1897/ Hammond: Mr Barrett, Puddletown, Dorset (w/o) "The Grey Hawk" - PURSLOW MB 1965 p 39 Hammond: Robert Barrett & p57 - BROCKLEBANK & KINDERSLEY DBFS 1961 p14 Gardiner: Robert Barratt - PURSLOW MB 1965 p57 Gardiner: George Blake, Bitterne, Hampsh 1906 - SEDLEY 1967 p126 - PALMER EBECS 1979 #106 pp177- 8 Bob Roberts 1977 --- EDDY Ohio 1939 p212 - see also THE BONNY IRISH BOY -- Bob ROBERTS rec by PK, Pinmill, Suffolk 1958: FTX-208 "The Grey Hawk"/ COLLECTOR JEB-6 1959 (45 EP)/ rec Tony Engle, Ryde, IOW: TOPIC 12-TS-361 1978 - Shirley COLLINS (voc/banjo) EMI CLP-1362 1960 "My BBB"/ with Dolly COLLINS (flute organ) & Bram Martin (cello): POLYDOR 583-025 1968 "Bonnie Boy" - Mary O'HARA (with harp): DECCA GES-1095 1973 "I will walk with my love" (Hughes Irish version) - Bob BLAKE rec Mike Yates, Horsham, Sussex: TOPIC 12-T-254 1975 - Anne BRIGGS: TOPIC 12-TPS-114 1964 - Geoff JERRAM (+ Guitar): FOREST TRACKS FT-3007 1975 - Richard GENDALL (V/gtr) 009 sung in Cornish "An Edhen Olow" ("The Bonny Bird" from SOW) - June TABOR: TOPIC 12-TS-432 1983 - YETTIES on Radio 2 17/12/87: CASS 0379 "Grey Hawk" - Clare CLAYTON, rec by Geoff Biggs, Hassocks, Sussex April 1961: FTX-147 "Grey Hawk"

BONNY BOWS OF LONDON, THE - TWO SISTERS

BONNY BOY, THE - BONNY BONNY BOY - BONNY IRISH BOY - BONNY LAD - UNDERNEATH HER APRON - YOUNG AND GROWING

BONNY BRAES OF SKELMORLIE - Reel - KENNEDY FTB 2 publ Mallinson 1997 #9 p4 (D) - Tunebook Ms (D) #68 p292 "The Bonny Braes of Skilnarley" - Skelmorlie is in Ayrshire

BONNY BRAVE SCOTLAND - "Where is the land that surpasses Scotland?" - Universal Songster 3 p317

BONNY BRAW LAD AN' A SWAGGER - ROUD#6178 - GREIG-DUNCAN 4 p77

BONNY BREAST KNOT(S), THE - "There was a bride all in the town" Ch: "Hey the B B K" - words by Ross of Lochlee - ROUD#8709 - English Bs by John FORD of Chesterfield 1830s (Palmer Reprint 2001) "Breast Knots" ("Hey the bonny O the bonny") - FORD VS 1899 pp303-6 & VS&B 2 pp174-7 - SMITH SM 5 pp2-3 - GREIG-DUNCAN 3 1987 #611 (14v no tune) - JOHNSON SMM 1787 p214

BONNY BREAST KNOT(S), THE - BAYARD DTF 1982 (9var) - KERR 3 p 23 "Hey the BBK" (A) Highland Schottische - KENNEDY FTB 1951 1 p23/ 1994 #96 p25 (D) -- Fred PIDGEON (fid) also with piano rec by PK, Stockland, Devon 1954: FTX-066 & FTX-087 - Peter KENNEDY & THE HAYMAKERS Band: FTX-324 - ISLAND HELP-17 1973 "Compleat Dancing Master" - Shoreham dancers with fid rec 1957 RPL LP 23926/ FTX-118 (Sussex version) - OLD SWAN BAND FREE REED FRR-011 1976 followed by "Getting Upstairs" "Blue-eyed Stranger (Poor but honest soldier)" & "New Killarney Polka" - Paul Wilson & Ben van Weede (fiddles): SAYDISC CP-115 1980 (Stockland version) - FAIR LANDS FAMILY BAND rec Dave Byrne, Cheddar, Somerset: cass 1980 (Sussex version) aft "Three Around Three"

BONNY BRIER BUSH - CUCKOO'S NEST

BONNY BROOM HILL - Hornpipe comp by Anderson -- Alistair ANDERSON (Engl conc) with Tich RICHARDSON (gtr): TOPIC 12-TS-371 1978 with "Blake's" & "President Garfield's"

BONNY BROOMFIELDS, THE - BROOMFIELD HILL

BONNY BROWN GIRL, THE - BROWN GIRL

BONNY BROWN JANE - OUR WEDDING DAY

BONNY BRUCKET LASSIE, THE - "she's blue beneath the een" - ROUD#8691 - Universal Songster 2 p304 - WHITELAW BSS 1845 pp370-1 - JOHNSON SMM 1 #68 p69 - GILCHRIST SSA&M 1865 pp147-8

BONNY BUNCH OF ROSES, THE - BINNSIN LUACHRA - BUNCH OF RUSHES - UP AGAINST THE WALL (K)

BONNY BUNCH OF ROSES-O, THE - "By the margins of the ocean" - LAWS #J-5 NAB 1950/64 p131 - ROUD#664 - Bs by John FORD of Chesterfield 1830s (Palmer Reprint 2001) "Young Napoleon" - SBG 6 #38 - LONG DIOW 1886 pp166-7 (w/o) - BARING GOULD SOW/ Ms #27 (a) Robert Hard HFS 1888 (b) Edmund Fry, Lydford FWB 1889 (c) J Parsons, Lew Down (publ words only slightly altered) - SHARP Cf 1 p125 - SHARP-KARPELES 1974 #303 pp325-6 Captain Lewis, Somerset 1906/ Tom Sprachlan, Hambridge 1903 1v/m/ John Curry, Farrington Gurney, Somerset 1906 (m/o) - DUNCAN Ms W41 M127 - GREIG-DUNCAN 1 p383 7var - GRAINGER #189 George Wray, Brigg, Lincolnsh 1906 - JFSS 2:4 1906 pp276-278 (Kidson) Charles Lolley: Howden, Yorksh 1v/m - JFSS 3:1 (10) 1907 pp56-7 Charles Waring (c): Lyme Regis, Dorset 1825-56/ Sharp: John Cully (m/o) - HUGHES ICS2 1914 p92 Co Tyrone 6v - WILLIAMS #391 Elijah Iles, Inglesham, Wiltsh (w/o) - COLLINSON-DILLON FSCM 1932 pp35-37 Harry Cox - O'LOCHLAINN ISB 1939 pp32- 33 Mrs Gilmer, Co Down (text partly from Bs) - O'LOCHLAINN MISB 1965 - ORD BB 1930 pp301-2 6v (w/o) - REEVES EC 1960 pp63-64 Gardiner: Charles Windebank, Lyndhurst, Hampsh 1906 (w/o) - SEEGER-McCOLL SI 1960 p91 Betsy Henry (McColl's mother), Auchterarder, Perthsh "BB of Roses"- PURSLOW MB 1965 p7 Gardiner: Charles Windebank, Lyndhurst, Hampsh 1906 (Cf "BB of Rushes") - COPPER SSB 1973 pp202-3 Noah Gillett - McCOLL- SEEGER TSES 1977 pp270-2 Nelson Ridley (gypsy), Essex "BB of Roses" ("Old Blucher")/ John McDonald, Lanarksh 1969 - SHARP SG 2003 p85 6v from Tom Spracklan, Hambridge, Somerset including verses added from Capt Lewis of Minehead --- McKENZIE BSSNS 1928 pp188-191 & p399 Robert Langville/ Alexander Harrison (w/o) NS - CREIGHTON SBNS 1932 pp140-142 Alexander Henneberry NS 1929+ - GREENLEAF NFL 1933 p170 - HUNTINGTON SWS 1964 pp207-9 ships log 1847 (w/o) - PEACOCK SNO 1965 pp988-989 Everett Bennett Nfl 1958 - WARNER TAFS 1984 pp50-51 John Galusha, Minerva, NY 1941 - SILVERMAN SOI 1991 p97 -- Harry COX rec supervised by E.J.Moeran, "The Windmill" Sutton, Norfolk 27/10/47: RPL 13860/ also rec 1945: RPL 17230/ EFDSS LP-1004 1965/ FTX-034 & FTX-517/ RPL rec: TOPIC TSCD-512 (D) 2000 - Phil TANNER of Llangennith rec Penmaen, Gower, S Wales 1949: RPL 13385/ FTX-057 & FTX-517/ EFDSS LP-1005 1968 - Peter DONNELLY rec by PK, Castlecaulfield, Co Tyrone 1952: RPL 18530/ FTX-432 (talk bef) - Thomas MORAN rec by Seamus Ennis, Mohill, Co Leitrim 1954: RPL 22024/ FTX-076 - Michael MORAN, his son rec by Tom Munnelly 1968 - Seamus ENNIS: TRADITION TLP-1013 1958/ EMBER EMB-2054 1964 - Joe HEANEY rec by Paul Carter 1960: COLLECTOR JEI-7 - Frank McPEAKE, Belfast rec by PK, London: FTX-071/ FONTANA TL-5258 1965 & DTS LFX-3 1965 - Brigid TUNNEY rec by PK, Belleek, Co Fermanagh 20/7/52: 7"RTR-0553 - Louisa HOLMES rec by PK, Dinedor, Herefordsh 1952: RPL 18690/ CAEDMON TC-1164/ TOPIC 12-T-196/ FTX-517 - Bob SCARCE, rec by PK, Blaxhall, Suffolk 1953: RPL 19883/ FTX-036 - Noah GILLETTE rec by Bob Copper, St Leonards, Sussex 1954: RPL 22741/ TOPIC 12-T-317 - Sam LARNER rec by Philip Donellan, Winterton, Norfolk 1958: RPL LP 26075/ TOPIC 12-T-244 1974/ 517 - Robert CINNAMOND rec by PK & Sean O Boyle, Belfast 1955: RPL 24841 - Paddy LAWN (74) rec by Sean O Boyle, Lisnarick, Co Fermanagh May 1958: 7"RTR-0563 - Robert GRAVES rec 1960: CASS- 0160 - Bobby CLANCY (solo): EMBER 2057 1968 - Finbar FUREY: TRANSATLANTIC XTRA-1077 1969 - Trish STUBBS with STAVERTON BRIDGE rec by PK, Foxhole School, Dartington, Devon 3/7/70: 7"RTR-0142 - Bob DAVENPORT: LEADER LER- 3008 1971 - Nic JONES: LEADER LER-2027 1971 - Bernard WRIGLEY: TOPIC 12-TS-211 1971- Ewan MacCOLL: ARGO ZFB-12 1972 - Fred JORDAN: TOPIC 12-TS-233 1974 - Cyril POACHER (from Bob Scarce) TOPIC 12-TS-252 1975/ TOPIC TSCD-658 Events & Issues/ rec by Tony Engle, Grove Farm, Blaxhall, Suffolk 1974: MT-CD-303 - George LING rec by Keith Summers, Blaxhall, Suffolk: TOPIC 12-TS-292 1977 - Willie CLANCY, Co Clare: 4-CC-32 1980 [?] cass - John CORRY, rec by John Foley, Castlederg, Co Tyrone 1985: FTX-178

BONNY BUSHES BRIGHT - GREY COCK

BONNY CA' LADDIE FOR ME, A - "On a mossy bank Jenny was sitting" - ROUD#2276 - CREIGHTON MFS 1961 p33 Mrs Ruth Metcalfe, NS 1956

BONNY CHARLIE - Scots Jacobite Air & 4/4 March - KENNEDY FTB 1 #18 p7 (Em) "King William of Orange" alt titles "King of the Fairies" - Tunebook Ms #94 p206 (Em) "Bonnie Charlie" - Cf BOYNE WATER - UNFORTUNATE TAILOR (I'LL GO & ENLIST FOR A SAILOR) -- Jimmy GARSON (fid) & John NICHOLSON (gtr), rec by PK, Dounby, Orkney 1954: FTX-064

BONNY CHRISTY - "How sweetly smells the simmer green" - ROUD#8475 - HERD A&MSS 1869 1 pp198-9 - JOHNSON SMM 1 #60 p61 - GILCHRIST SSA&M 1865 pp160-1

BONNY CLOCK FACE - FIERY CLOCK FACE

BONNY DOON - "Ye banks and braes of BD" - BSs - UNIVERSAL SONGSTER 1 pp63-4 - WILLIAMS #415 Elijah Iles, Inglesham, Wiltsh (w/o) "Ye Banks and Braes" - HIGHLAND MARY - LOST IS MY QUIET - The Jim CAMPBELL BAND "Songs for dancing" Scottish Dance Party: MILLER MER 356 1972

BONNY DOON - Song also used as Waltz or Jig - KERR MM 4 #259 p28 (G) - Tunebook Ms #55 p189 (G) 6/8 "Lost is my quiet" -- John McDONALD (mel): TOPIC 12-T-263 1975 - Willie KEMP & Curly MacKAY (acc): FTX-360

BONNY DUNDEE - "O where did you get that hauver meal and bannock?" - "Where got'st thou the Haverhill bonnet?" - "Jockey, Jenny, Sawney" (c1690) Ch: "Come fill up my cup/ can - open the gates and let me free - and shew me the way to BD" - Jockey gets the minister's daughter with child - ROUD#8513 - Many Bss - JOHNSON SMM 1 p100 - SMITH SM 2 pp6-7 - D'URFEY 1698 5 p17 "Jockey's Escape from Dundee" with parson's daughter whom he had married (Jockey the Laird assisted Sawrey fight their way out of prison) - PLAYFORD 7th Ed 1686 - WALSH (1718) - SIMPSON p49 London song taken up by Scots - Used in Gay's "Beggars Opera" (1728), Mitchell's "Highland Fair" (1731) and Coffey's "Bording School" (1733) - ANON 1972: Song of Scotland p16 piano accomp

BONNY DUNDEE - Jig - HAYWOOD #4 p23 (G) Country Dance - KERR MM 2 #307 p34 (G) - Tunebook Ms (Am) #226 p265 -- Bob SMITH'S IDEAL Band 1930: TOPIC 12-T-320 1977 - William KIMBER (A-conc) rec by PK 1951: FTX-384 - Mark ANDERSON Band, Middleton-in-Teesdale Durham 1951 ("Circassian Circle 1st pt"): FTX-211 - Geordie TAYLOR (fid) rec by PK, Northumb 1954: 121 "2nd pt of CC" - Joe HUTTON (N-pipes): TOPIC 12-TS-283 1976

BONNY EARL OF MORAY (MURRAY), THE - "Ye highlands and ye lowlands" - CHILD #181 - ROUD#334 - CHRISTIE TBA 1 pp202-3 - HERD AMSS 1776 1 pp20-21 (w/o) - JOHNSON SMM 2 #177 p185 - MOTHERWELL MA&M pp78-80 - RIMBAULT BPR p22,68 - SMITH SM 4 p101 - WHITELAW BSB pp16-7 - CARPENTER Ms version from Mrs Watson Gray, Fochabers, Aberdeensh 1929 - Ian Olsen "The Dreadful Death of the BEoM: Clues from the Carpenter Collection" in FMJ 7 19977 pp281-310 - FOLKLORE 111/2/2000 pp324-6 Review of book by Edward D.Ives: "The BeoM: The Man, the Murder, the Ballad" Tuckwell Press 1997 -- Rory & Alex McEWEN (+ guitar) with Isla CAMERON in chorus rec by PK, London 1955: FTX-293/ EMI CLP- 1220 "Folksong Jubilee" 1958 - Ewan McCOLL: RIVERSIDE RLP-12- 627 1956 - Mary O'HARA (voc/ harp): EMERALD GES-1116 1974

BONNY ENGLAND O - "Down by a crystal fountain" - ROUD #12879 - also called "The Conversation under a Rose" - in many Bss incl BG 9 #166

BONNY ENGLISH ROSE, THE - "Old England's emblem is the rose" - Many Bss incl BG 4 #440 & 6 #97

BONNY FISHER LASS, THE "'Twas in the month of August one morning by the sea - I met a comely damsel, for an empress she would pass" - ROUD#5881 - GREIG FSNE art #153 - GREIG-DUNCAN 3 #455 pp268-270 (4var) - BUCHAN & HALL SFS p78 - Cf TOCHER 3 #20 p146-7 - Cf SCARBOROUGH BANKS

BONNY GALLOWAY - Scots Song - see also FAIR GALLOWA' -- John CARRUTHERS (as air on whistle) with Willie JOHNSTONE (gtr) rec at The Kinross Folk Festival 1975: SPRINGTHYME SPRC 1003/ CASS- 1313 1988

BONNY GATESHEAD LASS - - "I'll warrant you haven't seen my lass" Courtship comp by Joe Wilson - he "stamps on her gown" - uncle is grocer, father's cousin a fiddler, mother kept shop - pies & candy, brother a cobbler and she's a dressmaker - at end he's allowed to take her out on a Sunday - Tune: "All round my hat" -- Don STOKOE: TOPIC 12-TS-219 1972 - Tom GILFELLON (v/ conc): TOPIC 12-TS-282 1976

BONNY GEORGE CAMPBELL - "High upon hielans - lay upon Tay" - CHILD#210 - BRONSON 3 p291 - LAWS#J5 - ROUD#338 - BELL EB 1856 pp205-6 (w/o) - FORD VS 1899 2 pp198-9 (p310) 4v (w/o) - MOTHERWELL 1827 p195 4v (w/o) - BUCHAN 101SS 1962 p17 from Rory McEwen --- COFFIN- RENWICK 1950 #126 & 258 - COMBS Midi 1925 p126 - DAVIS MTBV 1950 p267 - FLANDERS ABTSNE vol 3 p237 - WARNER 1984 #106 p269 Frank Proffitt -- Rory & Alex McEWEN (voc/ gtr) rec by PK, London 1956: HMV DLP-1143 1956 (10" LP) "Folk Song Today"/ FTX-502 (cassette only) Tune comp by R McEwen - Joe GORDON FOLK FOUR: EMI CLP-1379 1960 --- (Bascom LUNSFORD rec NY 1935: Lib of Congress AAFS-1782 A2) - Frank PROFITT of NC: FOLK LEGACY FSA-1 1962/ TOPIC 12-T-162 1966/ rec by Frank & Anne Warner 1950s: FTX-931

BONNY GLASGOW GREEN - "As I gid out one mornin fair on Clyde's green banks to tak the air" - ROUD#6262 -GREIG-DUNCAN 6 pp127-131

BONNY GLENSHEE - "Don't you see yon mountains - so gloomy and so high - you canna go with me lassie O no no" - may also have Ch: "Busk, busk, bonny lassie" - she draws his attention to the salt sea ebbing and flowing, the frost and snow, soldiers fighting etc that part lovers but eventually he says he'll stay - ROUD#832 - GREIG-DUNCAN 5 1995 #1053 pp494-8 6var 8v/6m "Oh no no" one version has "Bonny Lochlee" - GREIG FSNE 1909-14 #107 & #141 - ORD BB 1930 pp136-7 "O no no" - BUCHAN- HALL TSFS 1973 p111 Belle Stewart, Alyth, Perthsh - FOLK SONG TODAY #5 1971 p23 arr John Brune - McCOLL-SEEGER TSES 1977 p143-4 Charlotte Higgins, Blairgowrie, Perthsh 1963 "Busk, busk, bonny lassie" - McCOLL-SEEGER 1986 p207 from Cathie Higgins (Belle Stewart's daughter) - PORTER-GOWER 1995 pp173-4 2v & ch from Jeannie Robertson -- Isabel SUTHERLAND: COLLECTOR JFS-11 1960 (45 EP) - Sheila (another BS's daughters) with Alex STEWART ("goose" or bagpipe practice-chanter): TOPIC 12-T-138 1965 - Belle STEWART, Blairgowrie, Perthsh: TOPIC 12-TS-307 1977 - Charlottre HIGGINS rec by Isabel Sutherland, Blairgowrie July 1955: 7"RTR-1211-2/ CASS-60-0966-7

BONNY GREEN GARTER, THE - "A thigh for the stocking, a foot for the shoe" - WILLIAMS #226 Joe "the Sweep", Bampton, Oxfordsh (w/o)

BONNY GREEN GARTERS - Morris -- Billy WELLS (fid), Bampton, Oxfordsh 1946: RPL 9827/ FTX-383

BONNY GREEN TREE, THE - "As I went a-walking one fine summer morning" - wee lass - like an angel - Song of False Love - ROUD#2512 - HENRY SOP #794/ HUNTINGTON pp385-6 James Carmichael, Ballymena, Co Antrim 1939 "Under the shade of a BGT" - O'LOCHLAIN MISB 1965 pp20-21 Mary Finnegan, Co Wicklow (text completed by editor) - SCOTTISH STUDIES Journal 5 p100-6 contrib by Hamish Henderson - McCOLL-SEEGER TSES 1977 p239-31 Maggie McPhee (tinker) 1962 -- John REILLY (tinker) rec by Tom Munnelly: tape - Maggie McGee (unacc) Inishowen, Donegal ITSC-001 CASS 0887 (tune of "Nobleman's Wedding")

BONNY GREEN TREE, THE - Song Air - ROCHE 3 #7 p3 (D) 3/4 m/o

BONNY GREY, THE - COCK FIGHT

BONNY GREY-EYED MORN, THE - "begins to peep" - ROUD#8633 - D'URFEY PPM 1719 3 pp233-4 - HERD A&MSS 1869 1 p305

BONNY HAWTHORN, THE - "One midsummer morn when all nature looked gay" - Pastoral Glee -- ROUD#9268-- Billy PENNOCK rec by PK, Goathland, N Yorks 1/4/53 (2v): RPL 21492/ FTX-211 - PYEWACKETT Radio 2 27/12/89 CASS-15-1049

BONNY HIGHLAND LADDIE - HIGHLAND LADDIE

BONNY HIGHLAND SOLDIER - Source ? (not in Greig or Ord) -- Norman KENNEDY: TOPIC 12-T-178 1968

BONNY HIGHLANDER, THE - Jig - YOURSELF ALONG WITH ME

BONNY HIND, THE - "It's may she comes and May she goes - down by the Holland Green" - "Give me your green mantle or maidenhead" In fact he's Lord Randal's son but tells her he's not a courtier except courtinh her but sailor Jack Readall but she says he's Lord Randal's daughter's son. She stabs herself and he buries his only sister "beneath the Holland tree" - CHILD#50 - ROUD#205 - BELL EB 1856 pp183-6 from Dixon (w/o) "The BH Squire" -- June TABOR: TOPIC 12-TS-432 1983 - Nic JONES with conc on Radio 2 27/7/93 prog by Georgina Boyes CASS

BONNY HODGE - DOLLY AND HODGE

BONNY HOOSE O' AIRLIE, THE - "It fell upon a day - a bonny summers day" - Because of a dispute between Argyle & Airlie (Ogilvy family) who has gone to fight with Bonny Prince Charlie, Argyl burns down the castle and with it Lady Margaret and the children - CHILD #199 - ROUD#794 - In chapbook titled "The Duke Of Gordon's Three Daughters" - GREIG- DUNCAN 2 p170 9var - sung by David KENNEDY (1825-1887) - CHRISTIE TBA 2 1881 p276-7 & note in App - FORD VS 1899 2 pp167-9 (p296) 12v w/o with notes - ORD BB 1930 p470 8v w/o - McCOLL SI 1953 p17 - SCOTTISH STUDIES 9 p49-50 & 176-8 - TOCHER 21 1976 p175-6 Belle Stewart - McCOLL-SEEGER 1977 p89 Charlotte Higgins - McCOLL-SEEGER 1986 p175 Belle Stewart - PORTER-GOWER 1995 pp162-3 6v from Jeannie Robertson - AIRLIE HOUSE - GREEN WOODS O'AIRLIE -- Mrs Watson GRAY #016, Alex McEWAN #028, Mrs Alex CaMERON #037, Peter CHRISTIE #167, Black Jimmie MASON #173-4, Alex CLARK #276, George DUNCAN #290, Mrs Andrew THOMPSON #294, John COW #321, Children of the Duke of Airlie #332 rec on Dictaphone by James M.Carpenter, N.E.Scotland 1929-35 - Belle STEWART rec by PK, Blairgowrie, Perthsh with ALEX, her husband playing tune on Highland bagpipes: FTX-182/ also on 35mm cine film, Hampstead Heath, London/ TOPIC 12-T-180 1968 - Lucy STEWART rec by PK, Fetterangus, Aberdeensh 27/6/55: FTX-365/ rec by Kenneth Goldstein: FOLKWAYS FG-3519 1961 - Ewan McCOLL: RIVERSIDE RLP-12-622 1956 - Isabel SUTHERLAND: COLLECTOR JES-11 1960 (45 EP) - THE SPINNERS Vol 2 "Black and White" PHILIPS 6382-047 1965 - John McDONALD: TOPIC 12- T-263 1975/ TOPIC TSCD-667 1998 Ballads

BONNY IRISH BOY, THE - "When first I was courted by a B I B" - LAWS #P-26 ABBB 1957 p261 "The Bonny Young Irish Boy" - ROUD#565 - 2 distinct versions: Scots-Irish & American - KIDSON TT 1891 pp152-3 3v/m - JFSS 1:1 1899 p17 Kate Lee: Mrs Mainwaring Bodell, Clerkenwell, London (descr p10) - GREIG-DUNCAN 5 1995 #1080 pp6-13 6v/6m - HENRY SOP #168/ HUNTINGTON 1974 pp399-400 Mary Beckett (w) Portrush, Co Antrim & Wm Hephill (m) Co Derry (4v) - JOYCE OIFM 1909 p152 (1v & tune) "My lovely IB" - ORD BB 1930 pp162-3 11v w/o - MORTON CDGD 1973 pp128-9 John Maguire, Tonaydrumallard, Co Fermanagh 1970 - McCOLL-SEEGER TSES 1977 p217-9 Charlotte Higgins 1963 - SHIELDS SRT 1981 pp52-3 Lizzie O Hagan, Coleraine, Co Derry 1966 (European Ethnic SRT-3) - McCOLL/SEEGER 1986 p195 Sheila MacGREGOR (daughter of Belle Stewart) - Cf THE BONNY BONNY BOY --- HUBBARD BSFU 1961 p136 D John Rogers, Blanding, Utah 1949 - PEACOCK SNO 1965 p560 Nfl 2var: American & Irish -- Jimmy McBEATH rec by Seamus Ennis 1952: RPL 18777/ FTX-260 - Charlotte HIGGINS rec by Isabel Sutherland, Blairgowrie, Perthsh July 1955: 7"RTR-1211-2/ CASS-60-0966-7 - Bill LOWNE rec by SE, Cley, Norfolk 1955: RPL 22174 (In this she follows him to London & to prison) - Shirley COLLINS (voc/ banjo) RPL Radio2 27/7/93 Georgina Boyes prog CASS/ with John HASTED (banjo), Ralph RINZLER (gtr), Guy Carawan (gtr) rec by PK 1958 (ARGO): SEE FOR MILES SEE-212 1987 - John MAGUIRE, rec by Robin Morton, Co Fermanagh: LEADER LEE-4062 1973 - John CORRY rec by J P Foley, Castlederg, Co Tyrone 1985: FTX-178

BONNY IRISH LASSIE O - Short Reel or Highland - KENNEDY FTB 2 publ Mallinson 1997 #10 p5 (G) - Tunebook Ms (G) #148 p319

BONNY ISLE OF SKYE - Rhona McLEOD: BELTONA (Decca) LBA-58 1968

BONNY ISLE O' WHALSAY, DA - Shetland Reel -- Willie HUNTER (fid) & Willie HUNTER Junr (gtr) rec Pat Shaw 1952; FTX-068 - Alistair ANDERSON (E-conc) & Aly BAIN (fid): LEADER LER-2074 1972 - Tom ANDERSON, Aly BAIN, Trevor HUNTER, Davie TULLOCH (Fiddles) & Violet TULLOCH (piano) : TOPIC 12-TS-281 1976

BONNY JAMES CAMPBELL - "High upon hielans and laigh upon Tay" - "Booted and spurred and bridled rode he" - CHILD #210 - ROUD#338 - BELL EB pp205-6 (w/o) - FORD VS 1899 2 pp198-9 (w/o) --- COMBS FSMEU 1925 pp144-5/ FSSUS pp126-7 "Bonnie Johnnie Campbell" - WARNER TAFS 1984 pp269-271 from Frank Proffitt -- Bascom LUNSFORD rec NY 1935: Lib of Congress AAFS-1782 A2 "B George C"/ Frank PROFFITT (unacc) rec by Frank & Anne Warner, Watauga Co, N C 1960: FTX-931/ FOLK LEGACY FSA-1/ TOPIC 12-T-162 1962/ APPLESEED APR-CD-1035 2000 "James Campbell"

BONNY JEAN - "Love's goddess in a myrtle grove" - ROUD#8478 - HERD A&MSS 1869/1973 1 p184-5 - JOHNSON SMM 1 p55 - Tunebook Ms 2/4 (G) #59 p192

BONNY JEAN O BETHELNIE - GLENLOGIE

BONNY JEAN OF ABERDEEN - "she langed for a baby" - ROUD#2293 - GREIG-DUNCAN 7 p271 - Tunebook Ms 2/4 (G) #10 p173

BONNY JEANNIE GORDON - CAPTAIN GLEN

BONNY JEANNIE SHAW - "I'm far awa frae Scotland noo" - wants to cross ocean to "ramble by the Clyde"- ROUD#3945 - ORD BS&B p344 -- Sammy MacNEILY rec by Seamus Ennis, Kirkcudbrightsh 1953: RPL 22876/ FTX-262 (2 v & ch) "B Jenny S"

BONNY JIMMY - I KNOW WHERE I'M GOING (K)

BONNY KATE - "'Twas at Newmarket you shall hear" Lovers Trickery - Lawyer her to "The Bell" and after supper and wine takes her to bedroom but she gets through door and says adieu - ROUD#1633 - BSs PURSLOW WS 1968 Gardiner: Wm Burgess, Tichfield, Hampsh 1907

BONNY KATE - Reel (D) - ALLAN #44 p11 - BRODY p53 - COLE #2 p6 - KENNEDY FTB 1951 p18/ 1994 #78 p21 - KERR MM 1 #33 p39 "The Boys of Limerick" also "The Bonny Lass of Fisher Row" & MM 4 p7 - Tunebook Ms (D) #19 p273 - MITCHELL & SMALL #26 p65 from Patsy Touhey (U-pipes) - MOYLAN 2 #141 p83 from John O Leary (melodeon) - O'NEILL MOI #1277/ DMI #545 alt: "Boys of Limerick" - ROCHE 1 182-3 p70 2var (1st strain is dotted) -- Michael COLEMAN (fid with gtr) rec USA 1921-36: VIVA VOCE d/cass 004 1991 bef "Jenny's Chickens"/ FTX-154 - Billy ANDREWS (U-pipes) & Joe Milton (banjo), Dublin 1930: TOPIC 12-T-262 1975 - Michael DOHERTY (fid) rec Irish Folklore Commission Donegal 1949: COMHAIRLE BHEALOIDEAS EIREANN CBE-002 d/cass 1990 - Agnes WHITE (fid) rec by Alan Lomax, Loughrea, Co Galway 1951: 7"RTR-0590 bef "Jenny's Chickens"/ CAEDMON Courtship - Michael GORMAN Sligo (fid) rec by PK, London 1952; FTX-077 - Johnny Doherty (fid) rec by PK, Co Donegal 1953: RPL 19572 with talk on RPL 19593/ 075/ Comhaltas Ceoltri Eireann: CL-10 1974/ rec by David Hammond: GAEL-LINN CEF-072-3 1978 (Michael Coleman version) - Simon DOHERTY (fid) rec by PK, Glenties, Co Donegal 1953: RPL 19594/ FTX-273 - Frank CASSIDY (fid) rec by PK, Carrick, Co Donegal 1953: FTX-370 - JACKIE HEARST TRIO of Newry Co Down rec Belfast 20/9/52: RPL 18180/ FTX-373 aft "Maid behind the bar" & "Merry Blacksmith" - May KEOGH (fid) with Tommy DEMPSEY (acc): GAEL- LINN CEF-017 1967 aft "Peter Street" - Eddie CORCORAN (whistle & tambourine): TOPIC 12-T-184 1969/ TSCD-664 1998 Dances & Ditties bef "Jenny's Chickens" - Dave SWARBRICK (fid) & Martin CARTHY (gtr): FONTANA TE-17490 1967 - Seamus ENNIS (U-pipes): RTE-CD-199 1997 bef "Milliner's Daughter & Flannel Jacket"

BONNY KEEL LADDIE - "My canny keel laddie" - ROUD#9021 - BRUCE-STOKOE NM 1881 p150

BONNY KILWARREN - "One fine summer's evening in the month of May" -- ROUD#6991 -- Robert CINNAMOND rec by PK & Sean O Boyle, Belfast 1955: RPL 24840/ FTX-157 "Bonnie Kilwarlin"

BONNY LABOURING BOY, THE - "As I walked out one morning, being in the blooming Spring" - the parents of a rich girl try to prevent her marriage by confining her to her room and sending the boy abroad - LAWS M-14 ABBB 1957 p187 - ROUD#1162 - BSs incl SBG 2:#50/ 5:#46/ 7:#74 - JFSS 1:4 1902 pp206-7 Lucy Broadwood: Mr Lough, Dunsfold, Surrey text from Such Bs/ Frederick Page, Hertfordsh - JFSS 3:11 1907 p110-1 Hammond: Robert Barrett, Piddletown, Dorset 1905 - WILLIAMS #49 John Webley, Arlington, Gloucestersh (w/o) - HENRY SOP #576/ HUNTINGTON 1990 pp435-6 Mrs Brownlow, Cloyfin, Co Derry 1934 8v/m - O LOCHLAINN ISB 1939 pp18-19 Co Waterford - PURSLOW MB 1965 p9 Hammond: Robert Barratt- COLLINSON-DILLON SFC 1946 pp16-17 Harry Cox, Catfield, Norfolk - KENNEDY FSBI 1975 #147 p347 Harry Cox 4v/m 1953 - BROCKLEBANK-KINDERSLEY DBFS 1966 p4 Hammond: Robert Barratt - PALMER EBECS 1979 #95 pp161-3 R A Gatty Ms: George Hall, Hooton Roberts, Yorks 1907 - HOWSON SSIS 1992 p58 Tony Harvey, Tannington, Suffolk (w/o) --- GARDNER-CHICKERING BSSM 1939 pp180-1 A T Heikes, Mich 1934 (w/o) - PEACOCK SNO 1965 pp564-5 James Heaney, Stock Cove Nfl 1952 - KARPELES FSNFL 1971 pp216-7 Mrs Lucy Heaney, Nfl 1929 -- Paddy BEADES (with fiddle & piano-accordion) rec studio, Dublin 1946 on REGAL ZONOPHONE IZ-1274: TOPIC TSCD-655 (Rural) - Jennie DAVISON rec by Seamus Ennis, Antrim 25/8/54: RPL 21839/ FTX-434 - Harry COX rec by PK, Catfield, Norfolk 19/7/56: RPL LP 22915/ DTS LFX 4 1965/ FTX-013 & FTX-032/ rec by Charles Parker & Ewan McColl mid 1960s: TOPIC TSCD-512 (D) 2000 - Shirley COLLINS with John HASTED (banjo), Ralph RINZLER (gtr), Guy Carawan (gtr) rec by PK 1958 (ARGO): SEE FOR MILES SEE-212 1987) - Bob BLAKE rec by Mike Yates, Horsham, Sussex: TOPIC 12-T-258 1975

BONNY LAD, THE - Reel - KENNEDY FTB 1 1951 p18/ 1994 #74 p20 (G) "Bonny Lad" - KENNEDY FTB 2 publ Mallinson 1997 #11 p5 (A) alt: Tunebook Ms (G) #108 p306 "The Bonnie Boy" "Because I was a Bonny Lad" - KERR (?) - Tunebook Ms R-#108 p306 (G) "Bonny Lads" - O'NEILL MOI #1438/ DMI #675 (A) "The Bonnie Boy"

BONNY LAD - YOUNG AND GROWING

BONNY LAD THAT HANDLES THE PLOUGH, THE - "Success and flourish to a' barley rigs - prosper by the handling o' the plough" - ROUD#2170 - ORD BB 1930 p81 6v/m - McCOLL SS 1953 p85 from Ord - GREIG-DUNCAN 3 449 "The Laddie that handles the plough" (9var) - see also LAD THAT HAUDS THE PLOUGH

BONNY LADDIE - HIGHLAND LADDIE - TWO RECRUITING SERGEANTS

BONNY LADDIE BUT FAR AWA, THE - "O how can I be blythe and glad?" "O daughter dear you've grown so wild - I can scarcely own you to be my child" - ROUD#6324 - SMITH SM 4 p58 - GILCHRIST SSA&M 1865 pp188-9 - GREIG-DUNCAN 6 1995 #113 pp95-7 4var 5v/3m

BONNY LADY, THE - "O Jack camoe off the boat" - comp by JMcD - ROUD#5156 -- John McDONALD rec by PK, Pitgaveny, Elgin, Moraysh: FTX-061 #21

BONNY LASS - DRAGOON AND THE LADY

BONNY LASS AMONGST THE HEATHER - QUEEN AMONG THE HEATHER

BONNY LASS, ARE YOU GOING TO LEAVE ME? - SMITH'S A GALLANT FIREMAN

BONNY LASS COME O'ER THE BURN - "for what the de'il ails thee?" - ROUD#6134 - POLWARTH 1969 p18 (1v) - McCOLL-SEEGER 1986 p209 (1v & ch) from Henry McGregor (Belle Stewart's uncle) - PORTER-GOWER 1995 pp177-8 1v from Jeannie Robertson -- Jeannie ROBERTSON of Aberdeen rec by Peter Kennedy London Nov 1953: RPL 21083 - Cf tune: Johnny DOHERTY (fid) rec by PK, Co Donegal: RPL 19580 "The Braes of Maas"

BONNY LASS O BENACHIE, THE - "Once I loved a lady fair - she was a beauty I do declare" - (see LAWS #M-13 ABBB 1957 pp186-7 "Locks and Bolts") - ROUD#406 - CHRISTIE TBA 1 1876 p37 "Twas at the back O B" - GREIG-DUNCAN Coll 1995 vol 5 #1005 pp255-9 4var 27v/3m "The Bonny Lass o Bennachie" - GREIG FSNE i art 8 - ORD BB 1930 p438-441 3var (w/o) "The Lass o' Bennochie" - JFSS 5 1915 p114 Greig: Aberdeensh 1v/m "The Back o B" - JEFDSS 4:5 1944 pp180-181 Collinson: James Grant, Dufftown, Banffsh:"The Foot o' B" - McCOLL-SEEGER TSES 1977 pp253-9 Jock Higgins 1963/ Maggie McPhee, Aberdeensh 1962 "The Back o Bennachie" -- tune known as THE HESSIAN'S MARCH see Lyric Gems of Scotland 1856 - Cf LOCKS AND BOLTS -- Willie MATHIESON rec by Alan Lomax, Turriff, Aberdeensh, 17/7/51: 7"RTR 0682/ DAT "The Bonny Lass o B" - Maggie McPHEE: TOPIC 12-T-180 1968

BONNY LASS O BENWELL, THE -- Bob DAVENPORT & THE RAKES rec by PK, London 1963: CONCERT HALL SVSC-2339 1970/ FTX-330

BONNY LASS O BON ACCORD, THE - comp by J Scott Skinner - BRODY 1986 p53 (A)

BONNY LASS O' BRANKSOME, THE - "As I cam in by Teviotside" - (Branksholme on Roxburghshire ?)- ROUD#8474 - HERD A&MSS 1869/11973 1 pp201-2

BONNY LASS OF FISHER ROW, THE - Reel - KERR MM 3 p14 (C) - PHILLIPS FCTB p12 (C) from Angus Chisolm: SHANACHIE 14001

BONNY LASS O FYVIE O, THE - "There was a regiment of Irish dragoons" - ROUD#545 - BSs incl SBG 3:#90/ 6:#27/ 8:#90 - FORD VS 1899 p121 "Bonny Barbara-O" ("Derby" in song) - GREIG FSNE 1909-14 #15 2var - DUNCAN Ms W491 M8 & 15 - GREIG-DUNCAN 1 p197 26var - WILLIAMS #414 Elijah Iles, Inglesham, Wiltsh (w/o) "Sweet Peggy O ("There once was a captain in Derby O") - ORD BB 1930 pp304-5 17v (w/o) ("Green grow the birks on sweet Ythanside") - McCOLL SS 1953 p66 Henderson from George Hay - McCOLL-SEEGER 1986 p220 Sheila MacGregor, Blairgowrie, Perthsh - SEDLEY 1970 p154 Greig & MacColl collated from KIDSON (?) (not in TT or Garland) - PALMER EBBB 1980 #95 pp192-3 Notes & Queries 1s 6 1852 p343 (w) & Kidson (m) Leeds Mercury "Pretty Peggy of Derby-O" - PORTER-GOWER 1995 pp227-8 "Bonny Barbara- O" 6v from Jeannie Robertson & notes - Tune used for DUNDEE LASSIE (Jute Mill Song) & CASTLE HILL (Australian) -- Wm MATHIESON #009, Bell DUNCAN #270, Alex ROBB #337 & Ellen RETTIE #339 rec on Dictaphone cylinder by James M Carpenter 1929-35/ MATHIESON also rec by Alan Lomax 1951 - Willie KEMP (Voc/ piano) 1930s: BELTONA BL-1695B/ M.13487/ FTX-360 - - John STRACHAN rec by Alan Lomax & Hamish Henderson, Fyvie, Aberdeenshire 16/7/51: ROUNDER CD-1743 1998/ ROUNDER 82161-1835-2 2002/ COLUMBIA SL-207 1952/ FTX-065 - Jimmy McBEATH rec by Seamus Ennis, Portsoy, Banffsh 1952: RPL 18127/ FTX-260/ TOPIC 12-T-303 1978 (8v)/ CASS#0193/ TOPIC TSCD-651 1998 - Thomas MORAN rec by Seamus Ennis, Mohill, Co Leitrim 1954: RPL 22014/ CAEDMON TC-1164/ TOPIC 12-T-196/ FTX-076 "Handsome Polly-O" - JOHN MEARNS rec Aberdeen: RPL 20084 - Rory Mc EWEN (with gtr) rec by PK, London 1955: FTX-293/ EMI HMV CLP-1220 1958"Folksong Jubillee" - CLANCY Brothers & Tommy MAKEM: TRADITION TLP-1042 1961 "The Maid of the Fife-e-o" - KERRIES: MAJOR MINOR MM-LP9 1967 - Isabel SUTHERLAND: EFDSS LP-1007 1974 - MUCKRAM WAKES: LEADER LER-2093 1976 "Peg of Derby-o"

BONNY LASS OF LIVINGSTON, THE - ROUD#12587

BONNY LASS OF LIVINGSTON - West Lothian - Scots Song/ March - Tunebook Ms 4/4 (G/Em) #91 p204 - Variant of HIGHLAND LADDIE - BONNY BABY LIVINGSTON

BONNY LASS TO MARRY ME, A - Highland - Tunebook Ms (G - D) #40 p280

BONNY LASSIE - AS I ROVED OUT - KELVIN GROVE - WIND BLEW THE BONNY LASSIE'S PLAIDIE AWA'

BONNY LASSIE O THE MORNIN, THE - comp by Jack Foley, editor of "The Folksong Broadsheet" -- Bob BLAIR: LIVING TRADITION LTCD-1001 2000

BONNY LASSIE, WILL YE GANG? - AMONG THE LOMOND BRAES

BONNY LASSIE'S ANSWER, THE - "- ROUD#3326 - FORD VS1 1899 pp67-8 (w/o) - ORD BB 1930 pp73-5 (w/o) "Farewell to Glasgow, adieu to Lanarkshire" Ch: "'Twas aye or no, my love" The BLA was aye oh no" - GREIG-DUNCAN 1 p265 - JFSS 7 1923 p56 from Ford 1v/m - TOCHER #45 1992 pp177 rec from Liz & Maggie Cruikshank by Peter Cooke & Margaret Bennett, Edinburgh 1986 "The King's wantin' men" - O NO NOT I -- Jean Campbell, Ythan Wells, Aberdeensh #345 rec on Dictaphone cylinder by James M.Carpenter 1929-35 "Aye or no" - Mabel SKELTON, Arbroath, Angus 1964: RPL 28571 - Ken CAMPBELL (with pipes/gtr) RPL Radio 2 6/4/88: CASS-15 0706

BONNY LIGHT HORSEMAN, THE -"Ye maidens wives and widows I pray give attention" - "I once loved a soldier and a soldier bright and gay - now gone far away - to the dark plains of Egypt" Ch: "Broken-hearted I'll wander" I gaze at his picture hung over my head - mentions Napoleon & brave McDonald "If I was an eagle" "When Boney commanded his armies to stand" "Broken-hearted I wander, broken-hearted I remain, since my BLH in the wars he was slain" - Waterloo Lover's Lament also used as Children's Skipping Song - ROUD#1185 - Rymour Club 1 p148 - BARRETT EFS 1891 pp50-51 - GREIG-DUNCAN 8 2002 #1584 pp137-9 (4var) "Broken-hearted I wander" - HENRY SOP #122/ HUNTINGTON pp88-89 John Parkhill, Coleraine, Co Derry/ Valentine Crawford, Bushmills, Co Antrim 1926 - DALLAS SOI 1972 p92 - PALMER RS 1977 p252 from Henry -- CREIGHTON SBNS 1932 #69 p143 Ben Henneberry, NS 1929+ 5v/m - THOMPSON PS 1958 pp74-75 Stevens- Douglass Ms NY 1841-56 (w/o) -"for the loss of my truelover" - Children's skipping song - SEEGER-McCOLL SI 1960 p9 Betsy Henry, McColl's mother, Auchterarder, Perthsh - RITCHIE SS p29 & p95 (variant) SHARP SG 2003 p28 Jack Barnard's text and Broadside -- rec by Jean Ritchie, Norton Park School, Edinburgh 20/3/49: RPL 13869/ rec by Alan Lomax, Edinburgh 1952: FTX-181/ rec by James Ritchie 1953 RPL 19927/ Film: "The Singing Street" "Broken-hearted I wander" - Ewan McCOLL Glasgow: TOPIC 12-T- 41 1958 - London Critics Group: ARGO ZFB-64 1968 "Broken hearted I wander" " - Martin HOWLEY rec by Jim Carroll & Pat Mackenzie, Fanore, Co Clare 1975: TOPIC TSCD-658 1998 "The Young Horseman" - (Mary Ann CAROLAN rec Roly Brown, Drogheda, Co Louth c1982: TOPIC 12-TS-362) - MATTHEWS, WILSON & DOONAN rec Concert Hall on Radio 2: 22/3/83 CASS- 15-0791 Irish version (8 mins long) - THE FRASER SISTERS: F-ROOT-CD-012 1999

BONNY LIGHTER BOY, THE - BONNY SAILOR BOY

BONNY LOCH ARD - Aberfoyle, Perthshire (W of Stirling) in Trossachs -- Janet BROWN rec by PK, Wickford, Essex 1963: RTR-0876

BONNY MARY - GRAINGER ONS#69/ RNS#65 Joseph Taylor, Saxby-all- Saints, Lincolnsh 1905

BONNY MARY OF ARGYLE -- "I have heard a mavis singing its lovesong to the morn" - ROUD#12904 - Many BSs - ANON 1972 Song of Scotland p18 piano accomp -- Bob HART rec by Rod Stradling, Snape, Suffolk MT CD 301-2 "A Broadside"

BONNY MASON LADDIE, THE - "Simmer's gaun awa" - ROUD#5540 - GREIG FSNE #40 - GREIG-DUNCAN 3 pp237-8 - see also GREIG-DUNCAN 4 1990 #866 p368 "The Mason Lad o' Lochee" - ORD p108 - see also JOHNNY'S NAE A GENTLEMAN -- Willie MATHIESON rec by Alan Lomax, Turriff, Aberdeensh, 17/7/51: 7"RTR 0682

BONNY MAY - BROOM O THE COWDENKNOWES

BONNY MILLER LADDIE, THE - TWO SISTERS

BONNY MINER, THE - BONNY PIT LADDIE - MINER LAD

BONNY MONTROSE - YOU LAN'S AND BANKS OF

BONNY MOON -- "As I went to my cot at the close of the day" - ROUD#906 - BSs

BONNY MOORHEN, THE - "You brave lads (or miners) of Weardale, I pray lend an ear" - Miners believed they had the rights to eating the local birds - fight between miners and landowners gamekeepers that took place in the streets of Stanhope & elsewhere in Weardale, Co Durham - ROUD#2944 - HOGG Jacobite Relics 1 pp129-130 from Christie - the "colours" in Verse 2 refer to the Stuart tartan - BSs by Crampton, Firth, Fordyce, Such, Thompson, Walker - SHIELDS SRT 1981 p54 Hugh Somers, Aughill, Co Derry 1969 ("My BMH has feathers again") -- Mark ANDERSON rec by Alan Lomax, Middleton-in-Teesdale, Durham 20/4/50: FTX-511 (5v) - Ewan McCOLL: TOPIC 12-T-79 1962 - STEEL EYE SPAN: CHRYSALIS CJT-3 1977 (D) Orig masters

BONNY NORTH TYNE - Waltz-tune comp by BB -- Billy BALLANTINE (piccolo) rec by PK, Simonburn, Wark, Northumberland 1954: FTX-119/ TOPIC 12-T-283 1976/ TSCD-669 1998 Northern Dances - Joe HUTTON (N-pipes): TOPIC 12-TS-227 & 12-TS-239 1974

BONNY OLD ENGLAND-O - "Down by the crystal fountain as alone I did stray" - WILLIAMS #232 James Falconer, Brize Norton, Oxfordsh (w/o)

BONNY PAISLEY - BONNY UDNY - WON'T YOU LET ME GO ALONG WITH YOU?

BONNY PARKS O KILTIE, THE - "On the south side o Perthshire lived a pretty maid…. Meeting with the young laird o Kiltie" - ROUD#3953 - FORD VSB 1904 p.ix - ORD pp113-4 - TOCHER 34 pp37-8 coll by Hamish Henderson from Willie Mathieson 1952

BONNY PEGGY - YOUNG PEGGY

BONNY PIT LADDIE, THE - "the canny pit laddie" - BRUCE-STOKOE NM 1881 p159 - SHARP Ms Tunes p2081 - POLWARTH NCS 1969 1969 p26 from Pete Elliott, Birtley, Durham - DAWNEY DWW pp8-9 -- CELEBRATED WORKING BAND: TOPIC 12-T-86 1963 (tune only) - Colin ROSS (N-pipes) with Alister ANDERSON (E-concertina) (tune only followed by song (separate track): Johnny HANDLE with Colin ROSS (harmonica), Alister ANDERSON (E-conc), Tom GILFELLON (gtr): TOPIC TSCD-486 1997

BONNY POLKA, THE -- SHETLAND (40) FIDDLER'S: TD-5363 [nd] (45 ep) bef "The Seven Step" & "Sister Jean" (My mother said)

BONNY PORTMORE - "you shine where you stand" - ROUD#3475 - HENRY SOP #775 "Bonny Portrush" - (Cinnamond's is a parody ?)) -- Robert CINNAMOND rec by PK & Sean O Boyle, Belfast 1955: RPL 24839/ FTX-157

BONNY PRINCE CHARLIE - CAM(E) YE BY ATHOLL?

BONNY PRINCE CHARLIE - KERR MM 4 #256 p28 (G) Jig

BONNY RANTIN' LADDIE, THE - RANTIN LADDIE

BONNY REDESDALE LASSIE, THE - "The breath of Spring is grateful" - ROUD#3057 - STOKOE-REAY SBNE 1899 pp37-38 (words by Robert White, Newcastle/ air: "The fleet's a-coming" c1740)

BONNY ROBIN - "As Robin was driving his wagon along" - gives lify to young damsel - ROUD#2528 - PALMER RVW 1983 pp115-116 Noah 'Blue' Fisher, Tibenham, Norfolk 1911

BONNY SAILOR BOY, THE - "I once had a boy - a BSB - a boy you could call your own" - "I hate to be jilted by a boy" - apprentice - rich merchant's daughter - ROUD#843 - SHARP-MARSON FSS 1904 4 pp62-4 Joseph Laver - SHARP-KARPELES CSC 1974 #79 Joseph Laver, Bridgwater, Somerset 1907 "The Bonny Lighter Boy"- SHARP Sel Ed 1921 1 pp78-9 - Schools 9 - ORD BB 1930 p328 (w/o) "My B S B" - RITCHIE SS p99 Street Song --- CREIGHTON/SENIOR TSNS 1950 p179 "Jolly S B"- see MY DARLING PLOUGHMAN BOY - DOWN BY THE MAGDALEN GREEN -- rec by Jean Ritchie, Norton Park School, Edinburgh 1949: RPL 13869 - Peggy McGILVEY rec by Alan Lomax, Edinburgh 1951: FTX-181

BONNY St JOHNSTON - CRUEL MOTHER

BONNY SCOTCH LAD, THE - BONNET O BLUE

BONNY SCOTCH LADDIE - PEGGY AND THE SQUIRE

BONNY SCOTLAND - LORD MOIRA (Highland) - PAISLEY OFFICER

BONNY SHEPHERD LADDIE - KNIGHT & SHEPHERD'S DAUGHTER

BONNY SHIP THE DIAMOND, THE - DIAMOND

BONNY STRATHMORE - "Not the swan on the lake - or the foam on the shore" - Anne Gilchrist says: transl from Irish by Ewan McLachlan, Aberdeen 1844: WHITELAW: Book of Scottish Song 1857 possibly based on a Hebridean waulking song - ROUD#1525 - HENRY SOP #707/ HUNTINGTON 1990 p227 Maghera, Co Derry 1937 - JEFDSS 4:5 1944 pp187-8 from SOP/ Francis Collinson: Laughlan Malloch, Strath Tay, Perthsh 1v/m "Bonny Strathmore"

BONNY STRATHMORE - Jig - KERR MM 3 #288 p31 (Am)

BONNY SUSAN - Song Air/ Highland - OSWALD "Bonnie Susie" - Tunebook Ms 4/4 (G) #160 p415

BONNY SUSIE CLELAND - LADY MAISRY

BONNY TAVERN GREEN - IRISH GIRL

BONNY TYNESIDE - "O BT I see thee once more after long years of absence" - comp by Robert Chatt, Wark - KENNEDY FTB I p33 Tune used as waltz -- Fred LAWSON rec by PK, South Shields, Durham 15/7/54: FTX-425

BONNY TYNESIDE - as Waltz Air -- Billy BALLANTINE (piccolo) & Jimmy HUNTER (harmonica) rec PK, Northumberland 1954: FTX-121/ TOPIC 12-T-283 1976 - CHEVIOT RANTERS Country Dance Band: TOPIC 12-T-214 1972 for "Waltz Country Dance"

BONNY UDNY - "Over hills and lofty mountains oftimes did I roam" - ROUD#3450 - GREIG FSNE 1909-14 #32 with notes about related songs: "Lads of Sweet Ury", "Boys of Kilkenny", "Chaps of Cocaigny" etc - ORD BB 1930 p341 11v - GREIG-DUNCAN 1995 6 #1089 pp29-42 (19var 9v/12m) - SHARP Cf I p365 - JFSS 10 1908 p53 "Bonny Paisley" chapbook 1795 - JFSS 31 1927 p23 Sharp: "Chaps of Cockaigny" - PORTER-GOWER 1995 pp239-240 5v from Jeannie Robertson - TOCHER 36-7 (1980-81) p428 from John Strachan - Songs & Ballads sung at Blairgowerie Festival Aug 1968 pp4-5 - PORTER-GOWER: Jeannie Robertson pp239-40 - see THE CUCKOO - PLEASANT AND DELIGHTFUL - SWEET EUROPE - WON'T YOU LET ME GO ALONG WITH YOU? -- Bell DUNCAN #270, Lindsay & Mrs McLEAN #189, Portsoy, Banffsh rec on Dictaphone cylinder by James M Carpenter 1929-35 - Willie MATHIESON rec by Alan Lomax, Turriff, Aberdeensh, 17/7/51: 7"RTR 0682 - John STRACHAN rec by Alan Lomax & Hamish Henderson, Fyvie, Aberdeenshire 16/7/51: RPL 21530/ ROUNDER 82161-1835-2 2002/ / FTX-066 - Jeannie ROBERTSON rec by PK 1953 (5v) - Lizzie HIGGINS: TOPIC 12-T-185 - John McDONALD (unacc) rec by PK, Pitgaveny, Elgin, Moraysh 1955: FTX-061 #13/ TOPIC 12-T-263 1975

BONNY WEE CROODLIN DOO - LORD RANDAL

BONNY WEE HIELAN MAN, THE - "O far a ye gan, ma bonny wee hielan man? - I'm gan awa to steal a wee coo - O ye'll sure to get hung MBWHM - what care I if ma bairnie is fu" (Frag) - ROUD#6962 -- Jeannie ROBERTSON: FTX-067

BONNY WEE JEANNIE MACKAY - "I'm no comin' oot the noo" - McCOLL- SEEGER 1986 p267 -- Belle STEWART rec by PK: FTX-182

BONNY WEE LASSIE FRAE GOUROCK, THE - "I'm piper McFarlane and I'n on the beer" - ROUD#5298 - McCOLL-SEEGER TDIA 1986 p262 - tune is MO DHACHAIDHE (My Home) -- Belle STEWART: TOPIC 12-TS-307 1977 TSCD- 651 1998

BONNY WEE LASSIE'S ANSWER, THE - BONNY LASSIE'S ANSWER - DON'T COME AGAIN

BONNY WEE LASSIE WHO NEVER SAID NO, THE - "I come to a cross - I met a wee lass" - ROUD#2903 - SHARP BSs coll 2000 p163 - MORTON CDGD 1973 p72 John Maguire, Tonaydrumallard, Co Fermanagh 1970 - PORTER-GOWER 1995 pp209-210 7v from Jeannie Robertson & notes - Cf BONNY LASSIE'S ANSWER -- Jeannie ROBERTSON rec by Alan Lomax: CAEDMON TC-1143/ RIVERSIDE RLP-12-633 1956/ TOPIC TSCD-663 1998 Drink/ ROUNDER 11661-1778-2 2000 - John MAGUIRE rec by Robin Morton, Tonaydrumallard, Co Fermanagh: LEADER LEE-4062 1970/ on Radio 2: 21/7/93 prog by Georgina Boyes CASS-60-1284

BONNY WEE MARE - LITTLE DUN MARE

BONNY WEE THING, THE - "canny wee thing, lovely wee thing, wert thou mine" - SMITH SM 3 p58- ANON 1972 SONG OF SCOTLAND p 68 piano accomp

BONNY WEE THING, THE - Highland - KERR MM 3 #196 p23 (A)

BONNY WEE TRAMPING LASS, THE - "As I gaed oot this Saturday nicht" Ch: "Whaur are ye gaun? Gie me yer han"- Happy love story - he meets a girl working at the mill and ends up with two bairns and a third "yin on my knee" - ROUD#5129 - GREIG FSNE #157/ GREIG-DUNCAN 8 2002 #1917 p339 (3v/ch w/o) -- Willie SCOTT: TOPIC-12-T 183 1968 sung by his wife as a girl/ TSCD-660 Amorous Encounters

BONNY WEE WINDOW, THE - "There once was a lass and her name it was Nell" - LAWS #0-18 ABBB 1957 p234 - ROUD#989 - FORD VS 1900 1 pp20-22 11v (w/o) -GREIG FSNE art #123 - GREIG-DUNCAN 7 pp493-6 - ORD BB 1930 pp99-100 (w/o) - KENNEDY FSBI 1975 #123 p299 Jack Goodfellow 1954 7v/m --- RANDOLPH OFS 1946 1 pp431-432 Mrs M C Lemley Mo 1935 - CREIGHTON FSSNB 1971 #76 pp162-3 Mrs Clem O Connor, Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada "The Neat little Window" - FOWKE "Ring Around the Moon" pp134-5 -- James MASON #175/ 177 Stonedhaven, Kincardinesh & Madge CAMPBELL #347 Ythan Wells, Aberdeensh rec on Dictaphone cylinder by James M Carpenter 1929-35 - Jack GOODFELLOW, rec by PK, Rennington, Northumb 1954: 7"RTR-0039/ RPL 22444/ FTX-013 & FTX-425 - Steve BENBOW. EMI CLP-1603 1963/ FTX-292 - Eddie BUTCHER, Derry: FREE REED FRR-003 1976 --- Burl IVES COLUMBIA RTR-0323-4 - (Edith FOWKE Coll (FO-12 & FO-14 from OJ Abbott, Quebec, Canada)

BONNY WOOD GREEN - "Amongst the green bushes in BWG" - Boer war parody on GREEN BUSHES - ROUD#9246 - ORD p310 "Sweet Calder Burn" - HENRY SOP #476 "Bonny Wood Ha'" - LLOYD CAYBM 1952(?) - PALMER RS 1977 p229 "Bonny Woodha'" from Dick Gaughan -- Martha GILLEN rec by Seamus Ennis, Co Antrim: RPL 22031 (8v) - Dick GAUGHAN: TOPIC 12-TS-271/2

BONNY WOOD O' CRAIGIELIE - 2/4 - KERR MM 3 #368 p41 (G) "Thou bonnie wood o' Craigielie"

BONNY WOODHA' - "Down by yon green bushes by Calder's clear stream" - ROUD#3778 - GREIG-DUNCAN 5 1995 #947 p31 8v/no music - Dick GAUGHAN (unacc): TOPIC TSCD-486 1997

BONNY WOODS O' HATTON, THE - "they all grow green in May" "I wish I'd wed yon Highland lad that sang sae sweet tae me" - ROUD#5531 - ORD BB 1930 p185 - McCOLL-SEEGER 1986 p231 Belle Stewart's daughters - TOCHER #44 1992 pp122-3 rec from Mrs Jean Teviotdale, Arbroath, by Wm Montgomery 1952 -- Charles GILLIES rec by Seamus Ennis, Angus 11/2/53: RPL 19020

BONNY WOODSIDE - comp Billy Pigg who lived for a time at Woodside Hall -- THE CUT AND DRY BAND (N-pipes): TOPIC 12-TS-413 1980 with "Coffee Bridge"

BONNY YORKSHIRE LASS, THE - GRAINGER ONS#45/ RNS#45 Alfred Atkinson, Redbourne, Lincolnsh 1905

BONNY YTHANSIDE - "As I cam in by Ythanside where gently flows the rolling tide" - Bothy Ballad - Young man comes to court but is treated to supper with children round, then has to leave, but he comes back later & marries the girl - ROUD#3783 - GREIG-DUNCAN 5 1995 #951 pp38-47 (15var 13v) - ORD BB 1930 p32 -- Alex & Hector CAMPBELL, Ythan Wells, #198 rec on Dictaphone cylinder by James M Carpenter 1929-35 - Frank STEELE, rec by Seamus Ennis, Whitehills Aberdeensh 8/7/52: RPL 18129 - Jimmy McBEATH rec by Peter Hall: TOPIC 12-T-303 1978/ CASS-0193

BONY - BONEY

 
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