Nine Bonnie Laddies

DESCRIPTION: "My jolly auld mither rejoices tae see Nine bonnie laddies a-courtin at me There's tailors and sailors and sodgers a' three But it's the bonny mason laddie that I'm gaun wi'"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1909 (Greig-FolkSongInBuchan-FolkSongOfTheNorthEast)
KEYWORDS: courting
FOUND IN: Britain(Scotland(Aber))
REFERENCES (2 citations):
Greig-FolkSongInBuchan-FolkSongOfTheNorthEast #101, p. 2, ("My jolly auld mither rejoices tae see") (1 fragment)
Greig/Duncan4 844, "Nine Bonnie Laddies" (1 fragment)
Roud #6222
NOTES [20 words]: The current description is all of the Greig/Duncan4 fragment. - BS
Related, perhaps, to "The Bonnie Mason Laddie (I)"? - RBW
Last updated in version 2.6
File: GrD4844

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