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Joe Offer Lyr Add: Bonny Irish Boy (9) RE: Lyr Add: Bonny Irish Boy 23 Jul 16

There's a song titled "Bonny Irish Boy" by an artist named Margo here:

And a live performance by Margo O'Donnell (I think it's the same Margo, but older):


It's the same song, but quite a different version. It starts out, "His name I will not mention..."



And Steeleye Span also recorded a song titled "Bonny Irish Boy" that's quite different:

"they would not let me tarry with my bonny Irish boy"

Is this another version of the same song? I don't think so, but Reinhard on Mainly Norfolk thinks it is.

The Steeleye Span song seems to be close to Bonnie Labouring Boy, which I think of as a different song. (I say that with some trepidation, because I have often been proved wrong...)

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