Blue Bonnets Are Over the Border, The

DESCRIPTION: "Many a banner spread, Flutters above your head" as the Jacobites enter England. "March! March! Ettrick and Teviotdale... March! March! Eskdale and Liddesdale! All the blue bonnets are over the border." England will long remember the fight
AUTHOR: Sir Walter Scott?
EARLIEST DATE: 1822 (Scott, The Poetry Contained in the Novels, Tales, and Romances of the Author of Waverley)
KEYWORDS: Jacobite army travel
FOUND IN: US(MA)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Shoemaker-MountainMinstrelsyOfPennsylvania, pp. 156-157, "Blue Bonnets Over the Border" (1 text) (p. 134 in the 1919 edition)
Roud #14076
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, 2806 c.17(43), "Blue bonnets over the border." A. Swindells (Manchester), 1796-1853; also Harding B 11(177), "Blue bonnets over the border" also Harding B 36(16)=Johnson Ballads fol. 26, "March! march! a favourite song," all J. Catnach (London), 1813-1838; also Harding B 11(2308), "The blue bonnets are over the border," J Paul and Co. (London), 1838-1845; also Johnson Ballads fol. 140, "March! March!,"; also Johnson Ballads fol. 143, "March! march! Ettrick and Teviot dale,"; also Harding B 11(481)=Johnson Ballads 755=Johnson Ballads 756=Johnson Ballads 757, "March, march Ettrick & Teviodale" (sic); also Harding B 11(342), "The blue bonnets are over the border," all J. PItts (London), 1819-1844; also 2806 c.17(42), "Blue bonnets over the border," W. Armstrong (Liverpool), 1820-1824; also 2806 c.17(41), "Blue bonnets over the border," R. Peach (Birmingham), 1855-1875; also Harding B 11(3923), "Blue bonnets are over the border," unknown, n.d.; also Johnson Ballads 2532, "Scots, come o'e the border," unknown, n.d.; also Harding B 16(244c), "Scots, come o'er the border," unknown, n.d.; also Firth b.27(380), "The Blue bonnets o'er the Border," unknown, n.d.
NLScotland, RB.m.168(056), "The Blue Bonnets Are over the Border," unknown, n.d.
NOTES [47 words]: Often attributed to Sir Walter Scott (so, e.g., in Shoemaker-MountainMinstrelsyOfPennsylvania), but some have questioned this.
Laura Ingalls Wilder quotes a bit of this in The Long Winter, chapter 4, "October Blizzard" -- one of the strangest song citations in the whole series. - RBW
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