other thread The 1998 reprint of The Northumbrian Minstrelsy (first published 1882) has Bonny at Morn on page 88, the tune and words. The only description in the book is this...
The song "Bonny at Morn" gives us a pretty picture of family life. The baby awakes a little too early, but the big lad and the big lass are loath to rise; hence the interjaculatory phrases "Thou's ower lang in thy bed" in the midst of the song.
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