....and the Traditional Ballad Index entry on this song:

Bonnie Dundee

DESCRIPTION: "To the Lords of Convention 'twas Claverhouse spoke, Ere the King's crown go down there are crowns to be broke." The Jacobite army gathers and prepares to fight for James II and VII
AUTHOR: unknown (adapted by Sir Walter Scott)
EARLIEST DATE: 1862 (Cameron's Selection of Scottish Songs); believed to date to at least the eighteenth century
KEYWORDS: soldier drink political Jacobite
HISTORICAL REFERENCES:
July 27, 1689 - Battle of Killiecrankie, at which Jacobites under Claverhouse/Dundee are victorious but their commander killed, resulting in the failure of their cause
FOUND IN:
REFERENCES (1 citation):
ADDITIONAL: Michael Brander, _Scottish and Border Battles and Ballads_, 1975 (page references to the 1993 Barnes & Noble edition), p. 179, "Bonnie Dundee" (1 text)
ST MBra179 (Partial)
Roud #8513
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "Riding a Raid" (tune)
SAME TUNE:
Riding a Raid (File: SCWF082)
Scalp Song ("To the base churls of Congress 'twas Brooksy who spoke," referring to the attack on Senator Sumner by congressman Brooks, and attributed to Maria Jane Peytoun Middletonne Fitz-Fysshe, believed to be a pseudonym for George Templeton Strong) (Lawrence, p. 333)
NOTES: The common version of this is by Sir Walter Scott, who published it in the play "The Doom of Devorgoil" (so, e.g., The Annotated Alice: The Definitive Edition by Lewis Carroll wth Introduction and Notes by Martin Gardner, W. W. Norton, 2000, p. 260, n. 13), but there is enough variation in the publications that I am not entirely convinced that Scott originated it.
It is certain that Charles Dodgson/Lewis Carroll rewrote it for Through the Looking Glass, Chapter IX, "Queen Alice," where it bcomes a poem that begins
To the Looking-Glass world it was Alice that said
"I've a sceptre in hand, I've a crown on my head.
Let the Looking-Glass creatures, whatever they be
Come dine with the Red Queen, the White Queen and Me!" - RBW
Last updated in version 3.5
File: MBra179

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