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Thread #21476   Message #4004886
Posted By: Lighter
17-Aug-19 - 04:00 PM
Thread Name: Origins: My Bonnie Lies over the Ocean
Subject: RE: Origins: My Bonnie Lies over the Ocean
William Wellington Norton, ed. The University of Minnesota Song Book (1911), p. 95:

My bonnie has tuberculosis,
My bonnie has only one lung,
My bonnie has tuberculosis,
Oh, bring back my bonnie's one lung.



The Cornell [Univ.] Veterinarian (June, 1911), p. 51:                        

                               THE SICK BONNIE

My bonnie has tuberculosis,
My bonnie has only one lung.
My bonnie has lost her left kidney,
My bonnie is all on the bum.

My bonnie has actinomycosis,
Hepatic sclerosis, Doc says.
He thinks she has chronic nephritis,
She's all shot to pieces I guess.

My bonnie has pseudoleukemia,
Arthritis, cystitis and heaves.
She now gives the glanders reaction,
So here's where my poor bonnie leaves.

                         E. Pluribus Unum.

Julian Gore, Humorous Hospital Sketches (1918), p. 51:

My brother ... was always humming,

My Bonnie has tuberculosis,
My Bonnie has only one lung,
My Bonnie has spinal meningitis,
My Bonnie is sure on the bum.