The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #21476   Message #616606
Posted By: GUEST,django
26-Dec-01 - 03:21 PM
Thread Name: Origins: My Bonnie Lies over the Ocean
Subject: RE: 'My Bonnie Lies Over The Ocean' History?
I remember being sung to sleep by my godfather with "My Bonnie", complete with ukulele accompaniment. This was in the late 1950s, in Hamburg, Germany, which, along with Chris Amos' post, leads me to believe that there must have been a popular recorded version in the 50s. That the song has music-hall roots surely seems more likely than the Jacobite theory.

Django