Hi,

TY Mick. Here are two more transcripts from the links Kevin posted above. The first fragment is missing the first part of the 3rd line second stanza and the second transcript is complete:

My Own Pretty Boy- sung by Irish traveller Maggie Mongins from County Galway, c. 2016. Learned from her mother.

"Oh, where were you all day, ah, my own honey boy?
And where were you all day, ah, my pride and joy?
I was fishing, I was hunting, mother dress my bed soon,
I've a pain in my heart, and I want to lie down."

"What had for dinner, ah, my own honey boy?
What had you for dinner,ah, my pride and joy?
I'd a-me poison chicken, mother, dress my bed soon,
I am sick to my heart, and I want to lie down."

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My Own Bonnie Boy- sung by Irish traveller Edward McDonagh of Tuam in 2016.

Where were you all day you are my own bonnie boy?
Where were you all day you are my comfort and joy?
I was a-fishin' and fowlin', mother dress my bed soon,
I've a pain in my heart and I want to lie down.

O what had you for dinner you're my own bonnie boy?
What had you for dinner, you are my comfort and joy?
I did eat poison chicken mother dress my bed soon,
I've a pain in my heart and I want to lie down.

What will you do to your race horses, you're my own bonnie boy?
What will you do to your race horses, you are my comfort and joy,
I'll give one them to my dada and another to my mam,
I've a pain in my heart and Iwant to lie down

What will you do to your two children, you're my own bonnie boy?
What will you do to your two children, you are my comfort and joy
I'll give one o them to my dada and another to my mam,
I've a pain in my heart and I want to lie down.

What had you for yer dinner you're my own bonnie boy?
What had you for yer dinner you are my comfort and joy?
I did eat poison chicken O mother dress my bed soon,
I've a pain in my heart and I want to lie down.

What will you give your nice wife, you're my own bonnie boy?
What will you give your nice wife, you are my comfort and joy?
I'll give her a lang rope for to hang mother dress my bed soon,
I've a pain in my heart and I want to lie down,
I have a pain in my heart and I want to lie down.

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Corrections by Mick Pierce added 8-1-18.

Richie