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Series I : Original Collection Materials, 1928 - 1972
Box 2 : Miscellaneous Notes, Lectures, Words, Music and Correspondence
Packet 2 : Miscellaneous Field Typescripts and Manuscripts
Folder 46 : Miscellaneous Field Typescripts and Manuscripts - C

Page 04448- 04451 : Bonny May [song text] William Ross (contributor), Auld School House, Balquhindochy, by Turriff

Item Summary

Format

song text

Title

Bonny May

Contributor

William Ross

Place

Auld School House, Balquhindochy, by Turriff

Reference Code

AFC 1972/001, MS pp. 04448- 04451

Scope and Content Notes

Genre

song - Child ballad

First line

Bonny May to the yowe buchts has gane

20 stanzas

Type Number

Child 217, The Broom of Cowdenknows

Contextual Notes

Learned from mother, 50 years ago. Never saw in print. Saw Buchan's Ballads 40 years ago but never learned any ballads from it. Mother's name Jane Stephens, Born at Strichen, Learned some from farm servants about Strichen.