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BONNIE DUNDEE. 133
recognised as Bonnie Dundee. In the latter part of the seven-
teenth century, the tune, under the name of Bonnie Dundee, was
known in England, for it appears by that title in an Appendix
to one of the editions of Playford's Dancing Master, of date 1688.
To what verses was it then sung ? Possibly to a simple ditty
which still retains a certain degree of popularity in Scotland,
beginning :
whar gat ye that haver-meal bannock ?
Silly blind body, O dinna ye see ?
1 gat it frae a brisk sodger laddie,
Atween St Johnston and Bonnie Dundee.
Oh, gin I saw the dear laddie that gae me 't !
Aft has he doudled me on o' his knee.
But now he 's awa', and I dinna ken whar he 's,
gin he was back to his minnie and nie I 1
Possibly, however, I feel sorry to say, to a remarkably coarse
Grub Street song of licentious sentiment, which is printed in
more than one English collection of the early part of the
eighteenth century, under the title of Jochei/s Deliverance, or
1 In Notes and Queries, August 1859, is printed a various version of
this song, transmitted by a gentleman styling himself Yemen, who states
that he found it among some old family papers :
O ! whar got ye that auld crooked penny ?
For ane o' bricht goud wad ye niffer wi' me ?
Richt fou are baith ends o' my green silken wallet,
And high are my wa's, ower in Bonnie Dundee.
'. gin I saw the dear laddie that had it,
Wha, when we were bairnies twa, gied it to me,
For a' the bricht goud in your green silken wallet
I never wad niffer my crooked bawbee.
! whar got ye that auld worsted plaidie ?
A mantle o' satin is fitter for ye.
1 '11 dead ye in satin, and mak ye a lady,
Gin ye 'd gang wi' mc to Bonnie Dundee.
Ye may dead me in satin and mak me a lady,
And tak me ower heartless to Bonnie Dundee,
But my heart neither satin nor goud can procure ye,
I sell't it lang syne for this crooked bawbee.