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Thread #9297   Message #64297
Posted By: Bruce O.
19-Mar-99 - 01:10 PM
Thread Name: Tune Req: Bonnie Susie Cleland -- Different Tune
Subject: Lyr/Tune Add: BONNIE SUSIE CLELAND (from Motherwel
Wm. Motherwell, only, collected a full version of the ballad (Child #65), and gave it in his 'Minstrelsy: Ancient and Modern', 1827, with the tune noted by Andrew Blaikie in the Appendix (The copy in DT is missing two verses). My copy of Motherwell doesn't have the tunes, so here, transposed from F to G is Blaike's tune via Bronson's 'The Traditional Tunes of the Child Ballads', II, Child #65.

Bonnie Susie Cleland
[Never Before Published]

There lived a lady in Scotland,
   Hey my love and ho my joy;
There lived a lady in Scotland,
   Who dearly loved me;
There lived a lady in Scotland,
   An she's fa'n in love wi' an Englishman,
And bonnie Susie Cleland is to be burnt in Dundee.

The father to the daughter came,
   Hey my love, &c.
The father to the daughter came,
   Who dearly, &c.
The father to the daughter came,
   Saying, will you forsake that Englishman,
And bonnie Susie Cleland is to be burnt in Dundee!

If you will not that Englishman forsake,
   Hey my love, &c.
If you will not that Englishman forsake,
   Who dearly loved, &c.
If you will not that Englishman forsake,
   O I will burn you at the stake,
And bonnie, &c.

I will not that Englishman forsake,
   Hey my love, &c.
I will not that Englishman forsake,
   Who dearly, &c.
I will not that Englishman forsake,
   Though you should burn me at a stake,
And bonnie, &c.

O where will I get a pretty little boy,
   Hey my love, &c.
O where will I get a pretty little boy,
   Who dearly loves me.
O where will I get a pretty little boy,
   Who will carry tidings to my joy,
And bonnie, &c.

Here am I a pretty little boy,
   Hey my love, &c.
Here am I a pretty little boy,
   Who dearly loves thee;
Here am I a pretty little boy,
   Who will carry tidings to thy joy,
And bonnie, &c.

Give to him this right hand glove,
   Hey my love, &c.
Give to him this right hand glove,
   Who dearly loved me;
Give to him this right hand glove,
   Tell him to get another love,
For bonnie, &c.

Give to him this little pen-knife,
   Hey my love, &c.
Give to him this little pen-knife,
   Who dearly, &c.
Give to him this little pen-knife,
   Tell him to get another wife,
For bonnie, &c.

Give to him this gay gold ring,
   Hey my love, &c.
Give to him this gay gold ring,
   Who dearly, &c.
Give to him this gay gold ring,
   Tell him I'm going to my burning,
And bonnie, &c.

Her father he ca'd up the stake,
   Hey my love, &c.
Her father he ca'd up the stake,
   Who dearly, &c.
Her father he ca'd up the stake,
   Her brother he the fire did make,
And bonnie Susie Cleland was burnt in Dundee.

X:1
T:[Bonnie] Susie Cleland
S:Motherwell's Minstrelsy via Bronson, TTCB
Q:120
L:1/8
M:3/4
K:G
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