The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #15389   Message #137994
Posted By: Bruce O.
18-Nov-99 - 03:32 PM
Thread Name: Origins: The Bonnie Wee Window / ...Lassie
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: A Bonnie Wee Lassie ... the words???
With slightly different wording (but including the expanded last verse, that Murray gave ) is a version with tune as the A test of #1512 in 'The Greig-Duncan Folk song Collection', VII, 1997 (from William Wallace, 1908). The B-C versions are fragments with tunes.

Laws at O18 cited a mention of a broadside text by Prof. Belden.

With the information cited above the sources of traditional and broadside texts seems to be complete as far as current bibliography goes. Nothing new in the Traditional Ballad Index or Steve Roud's folk song index (Roud #989) or his broadside index (no broadsides noted).