My Bonnie Laddie's a Writer o' Letters

DESCRIPTION: The singer says her bonnie laddie's "a writer o' letters And aye as he writes them he sends them to me"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1907 (Greig/Duncan7)
KEYWORDS: courting nonballad
FOUND IN: Britain(Scotland(Aber))
REFERENCES (2 citations):
Greig-FolkSongInBuchan-FolkSongOfTheNorthEast #147, p. 2, ("My bonnie laddie's a writer o' letters") (1 fragment)
Greig/Duncan7 1345, "My Bonnie Laddie's a Writer o' Letters" (1 short text, 1 tune)
Roud #7226
NOTES [12 words]: The current description is based on the single Greig/Duncan7 verse. - BS
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File: GrD71345

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