"Bonny Blue Handkerchief" is listed in the index of Peter Kennedy's Folksongs of Britain and Ireland, so I thought I was going to be able to come up with some fascinating facts to share. The index leads to "Flash Companie (The Yellow Handkerchief)," a song my friend Dick Holdstock is infamous for.
Kennedy says the George Gardiner Folksong Collection has three variants of the song, "Flash Company," "Once I Loved Thomas," and "Bonny Blue Handkerchief."
-Joe Offer-