Lyr Add: (different) The Bonny Boy

19 Sep 99 - 12:21 AM (#115446)
Subject: Lyr Add: THE BONNY BOY^^
From: Alice

Here is a different song than the other Bonny Boy songs that are in the database.

THE BONNY BOY

The trees are growing high my love, and the grass is growing green;
And many a cold and winter night that I alone have been.
It is a cruel and bitter night that I must lie alone,
Oh! the Bonny Boy is young, but he is growing.

Oh! father, dear father I think you did me wrong
For to go and get me married to one that is so young.
He is but sixteen years and I am twenty-one.
Oh! the bonny boy is young and he's growing.

Oh! daughter, dear daughter, I did not do you wrong
For to go and get you married to one that is so young,
He will be a match for you when I am dead and gone.
Oh! the bonny boy is young, but he is growing.

Oh! father, dear father, I'll tell you what I'll do;
I'll send my love to college for another year or two;
And all around his college cap, I'll bind a ribbon blue,
For to let the ladies know that he's married.

A year it went by and I passed the college wall
And saw the young collegians a-playing at the ball;
I spied him in among them, the fairest of them all,
Oh! my bonny boy was young and still growing.

At the age of sixteen years he was a married man,
And at the age of seventeen the father of a son,
But at the age of eighteen, o'er his grave the grass grew green;
Cruel death put an end to his growing.

I'll buy my love a shroud of the Holland linen brown;
And whilst they are making it, the tears they will run down;
It's once I had a true love, but now he's lying low,
And I'll nurse his bonny boy while he's growing.
^^

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19 Sep 99 - 01:09 PM (#115524)
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: (different) The Bonny Boy
From: Alice

Does anyone have an abc or midi of the tune for these lyrics?

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19 Sep 99 - 01:44 PM (#115530)
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: (different) The Bonny Boy
From:

The is not the same song as "Bonny Boy' in DT, it is Laws O35, for which there are 3 tunes in DT (search for O35).

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19 Sep 99 - 02:38 PM (#115544)
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: (different) The Bonny Boy
From: Philippa

I tried unsuccessfully to search for 035. I know the song also under the titles of 'Lang a-Growing' and 'The Trees they do grow high'. I didn't find these in the database, but there is a Robert Burns version called Lady Mary Ann and another entry under the name 'Daily Growing', which will give you three tunes to sample.

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19 Sep 99 - 02:48 PM (#115549)
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: (different) The Bonny Boy
From: Alice

I finally found 035 by searching Laws* and scrolling down through all the list of Laws! Is there an easier way? Here is a link to the page with Laws 035 tune in the DT at DAILY GROWING (BONNY BOY IS YOUNG OR TREES GROW HIGH, ETC.) The version I posted above is from Mary O'Hara.

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19 Sep 99 - 03:50 PM (#115562)
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: (different) The Bonny Boy
From:

"O"35, not zero35.

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