THE JACKET SO BLUE in the DT.

THE BONNET OF BLUE in the DT.

Bonnet So Blue (Bodleian Library Broadside Ballads: Harding B 11 (392))

Bonnet so blue, and Jacket so blue (Sold, wholesale and retail, L. Deming, No. 62, Hanover Street, corner of Friend Street, Boston)

Info: Jacket So Blue, The (The Bonnet o' Blue) (at The Traditional Ballad Index)

~Masato

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Traditional Ballad Index entry:

Jacket So Blue, The (The Bonnet o' Blue)

DESCRIPTION: The girl sees a soldier marching past and falls in love. She meets him and offers to buy his discharge; he replies that he already has a girl at home. She asks for a portrait to console her; this at least is granted
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1806
KEYWORDS: love courting soldier clothes separation
FOUND IN: US(MA,So) Ireland Britain(England,Scotland) Canada
REFERENCES (6 citations):
FSCatskills 43, "The Jacket So Blue" (1 text, 1 tune)
Belden, p. 301, "The Wagoners" (1 text, fragmentary and localized to make the soldier a wagoner)
Logan, pp. 101-106, "Bonnet o' Blue" (1 text)
SHenry H644, p. 367, "The Bonnet sae Blue" (1 text, 1 tune)
Huntington-Whalemen, pp. 275-277, "The Bonnet of Blue" (1 text plus a fragment, 1 tune)
Ord, pp. 295-296, "The Bonnet o' Blue" (1 text, 1 tune)
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "The Manchester Angel" (theme)
File: FSC43

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