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Thread #21476   Message #4004804
Posted By: Joe Offer
17-Aug-19 - 02:06 AM
Thread Name: Origins: My Bonnie Lies over the Ocean
Subject: RE: Origins: My Bonnie Lies over the Ocean
The first suggestion in the Wikipedia article, is that the song refers to Bonnie Prince Charlie, but then the Wikipedia article follows more-or-less along the lines of this thread.
I looked at the Opies' Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes, but it said nothing.
-Joe-