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Thread #84894 Message #1570441
Posted By: Malcolm Douglas
25-Sep-05 - 03:57 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Bonnie Annie (Child 24)
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: BONNIE ANNIE (Child 24)
The Baring-Gould tunes are in Bronson. Almost all the known tune examples are from English sources, Baring-Gould's being the earliest recorded.
The TSI reference would be from Penguin, where Lloyd mentioned the date but not the source (an omission rectified in the revised edition).
Whether or not the Bonnie Annie references at EASMES have anything to do with this song, I don't know. I suspect that they are more likely to be examples of the dance tune(s) of that name, one of which (The Red House) was later used in mutated forms for the Scottish Where wad bonnie Annie ly and the English John Peel. No relation at all to the ballad, so far as can be told.