“My Bonny Lad”

Description

"Ha' you seen owt of my bonny lad?... He's gone along wi' a stick in his hand/He's gone to row the keel-o" "Yes, I ha' seen your bonny lad; 'twas on the sea I spied him/His grave was green, but not wi' grass/And you'll never lay beside him"

Notes

This sounds like a fragment, but in fact the story is complete, although squeezed down to bare essentials. - PJS

Recordings

  • Anne Briggs, "My Bonny Lad" (on Briggs2, Briggs3)
  • Isla Cameron, "My Bonny Lad" (on Lomax41, LomaxCD1741)

References

  1. Roud #204
  2. BI, RcMBL

About

Author: unknown
Earliest date: 1951 (recording, Isla Cameron)
Found in: Britain(England(North))