Bonnie Bessie Logan

DESCRIPTION: "O, bonnie Bessie Logan Is dainty, young, and fair, The very wind that's blawin', It lingers in her hair... But bonnie Bessie Logan is owre young for me." All the lads pursue her; the singer wishes he could, too, but she is too young
AUTHOR: Words: Probably Alexander Anderson (1845-1909)
EARLIEST DATE: 1913 ("The Later Poems of Alexander Anderson"
KEYWORDS: love beauty courting | youth age
FOUND IN: Britain(Scotland(Aber))
REFERENCES (2 citations):
DT, BONBESLO
ADDITIONAL: Alexander Anderson, edited by Alexander Brown, _Later Poems of Alexander Anderson, 'Surfaceman'_, Frasher, Asher * Co., Glasgow, 1912 (called "Surfaceman's Later Poems" on the cover; available in a very poor OCR transcription on archive.org or in a better one on Google Books), pp. 115-116, "Bonnie Bessie Logan" (1 text)
Roud #21824
File: UnkBoBL

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