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Thread #21476   Message #1032005
Posted By: Malcolm Douglas
08-Oct-03 - 06:42 PM
Thread Name: Origins: My Bonnie Lies over the Ocean
Subject: RE: 'My Bonnie Lies Over The Ocean' History?
See also the DT file  HABEN A BOO AND A BANNER. For some bizarre reason, somebody has decided to re-classify this as "Irish", though Bruce Olson, who originally posted it, made it clear that it was Scots.

Also  Lyr Req: Nobody comin' to marry me

A text, Slighted Nansy, appeared in A Collection of Old Ballads (1725); slightly before Orpheus Caledonius, but of course without a tune, as also are the two above.