Merry Row the Bonny Bark

DESCRIPTION: "O merry row! O merry row The bonnie, bonnie bark: Bring back my love to calm my woe, Before the night grows dark! My Donald wears a bonnet blue...." The singer heard a "lowland maid" lamenting as she waits, but at last the boat brings back her love
AUTHOR: "Founded on an Ancient Northumbrian Melody. The Words Chiefly Written and the Music partly Composed by John Parry" (source: sheet music published by John G. Klemm)
EARLIEST DATE: 1843 (Whitelaw, The Book of Scottish Song)
KEYWORDS: love separation ship
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REFERENCES (2 citations):
Driven-From-Home-Songster, p. 50, "Merry Row the Bonny Bark" (1 text)
Whitelaw-BookOfScottishBallads, p. 351, "O merry row" (1 text)
Roud #17553
File: DFHS050

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