Bonnie Dundee (II) (O whar gat ye that hauver-meal bannock)

DESCRIPTION: "O whar gat ye that hauver-meal bannock? O, silly blind boyd, o, dinna ye seee?" It came from a soldier. She hopes the soldier will be well, but he is "Awa' frae his lassie and bonnie Dundee." She will dress her baby like his daddy
AUTHOR: unknown (adapted by Robert Burns)
EARLIEST DATE: 1787 (source: Kinsley)
KEYWORDS: love soldier separation baby
FOUND IN: Britain(Scotland(Aber))
REFERENCES (2 citations):
Gatherer-SongsAndBalladsOfDundee 58, "Scots Callan o' Bonnie Dundee" (1 text, 1 tune)
ADDITIONAL: James Kinsley, editor, Burns: Complete Poems and Songs (shorter edition, Oxford, 1969) #157, pp. 270-271, "Bonie Dundee" (1 text, 1 tune, from 1787)
Roud #8513
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "Jockey's Escape from Dundee" (opening lines)
NOTES [28 words]: Roud lunps this with "Bonnie Dundee (I)" ("To the Lords of Convention 'twas Claverhouse spoke"), with which it shares a tune. But they are clearly not the same song. - RBW
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File: Gath058

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