The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #73955 Message #1286858
Posted By: Mary Humphreys
02-Oct-04 - 11:17 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Bonny George Campbell (Brian Peters)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: brian peters' bonny george campbell
Child has, in his Version A from Herd's MSS: 'My house is unbigged
my barn's unbeen,
My corn's unshorn
my meadow grows green'
'unbigged' means not built.
In Brian Peters's version it may be' My barn is to bigg', as you suggest.
The fourth verse has no equivalent in Child. Perhaps Bronson has some versions that were incorporated?