O Bonnie Annie, Gin Ye Had Been Cannie

DESCRIPTION: "O bonnie Annie, gin ye had been cannie, Ye micht 'a been lady o' Lessendrum, But O bonnie Annie, ye never was cannie, Ye've gotten but Lesley's second son"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1914 (Greig/Duncan6)
KEYWORDS: courting nonballad nobility
FOUND IN: Britain(Scotland(Aber))
REFERENCES (2 citations):
Greig-FolkSongInBuchan-FolkSongOfTheNorthEast #143, p. 2, ("O bonnie Annie, gin ye had been cannie") (1 fragment)
Greig/Duncan6 1191, "O Bonnie Annie, Gin Ye Had Been Cannie" (1 fragment)
Roud #6777
NOTES [74 words]: The current description is all of the Greig/Duncan6 fragment.
Maybe this is connected to "James Bisset, X. of Lessendrum. He married Anne Dun of Tarty (commonly called 'Bonnie Annie'), whose portrait, by Alexander, may be seen at Lessendrum. She died Feb. 22, 1782." (source: William Temple, St Margeret's Forgue with Notices of Frendraught, Lessendrum, Cobairdy, Templeland, and Auchaber (Aberdeen, 1881 ("Digitized by Google")), p. 57). - BS
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