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Thread #23255 Message #256961
Posted By: Scabby Douglas
13-Jul-00 - 03:14 AM
Thread Name: Lyr/Tune Add: Mary of Argyle
Subject: RE: Bonny Mary of Argylle?
As far as I can remember, Burns wrote the song in tribute to Mary Campbell who was one of his lady friends. She was from Dunoon, in Argyll, or thereabouts.
There is s statue at Castle Hill in Dunoon commemorating her and the song.