Gin Ye Wed a Bonnie Wife

DESCRIPTION: "Gin ye wed a bonnie wife Little sleep will sair [Greig/Duncan8: serve] ye"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1914 (Greig/Duncan8)
KEYWORDS: marriage wife
FOUND IN: Britain(Scotland(Aber))
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Greig/Duncan8 1920, "Gin Ye Wed a Bonnie Wife" (1 fragment)
Roud #15120
NOTES [38 words]: The current description is all of the Greig/Duncan8 fragment.
Scottish proverb: "He that has a bonnie wife needs mair than twa een" (source: Andrew Henderson, Scottish Proverbs (London, 1876 ("Digitized by Google")), p. 61). - BS
Last updated in version 2.5
File: GrD81920

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