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Series I : Original Collection Materials, 1928 - 1972
Box 3 : Ballads - Index and Texts, Volume 1
Folder 70 : Ballads Index and Texts - D

Page 06585 : The Bonnie Earl o Murray [song text] Mrs Watson Gray (contributor), Corner House, East Street, Fochabers, Scotland

Item Summary

Format

song text

Title

The Bonnie Earl o Murray

Contributor	Mrs Watson Gray
Index Name	Gray, Mrs Watson

Place

Corner House, East Street, Fochabers, Scotland

Reference Code

AFC 1972/001, MS p. 06585

Scope and Content Notes

Genre

song - Child ballad

First line

He's ben an ben an ben tae his bed

9 stanzas

Type Number

Child 181, The Bonny Earl of Murray

Contextual Notes

Heard over fifty years ago, in Glenlivet.

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Song Text

The Bonnie Earl o Murry [song text] Mrs Watson Gray (contributor), East Street, Fochabers, 1931

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