“The Bonny Flora Clark”

Author: unknown
Earliest date: 1969 (Ives-DullCare)
Keywords: moniker fight ship dream drink party river wreck humorous
Found in: Canada(Mar)

Description

"Six sporting youths" borrow Donald's Bonny Flora Clark "in the chilly months of autumn" and sail up Grand River Harbour. They go through ice to a party and drink and fight. As Donald dreams, Bonny Flora Clark is wrecked in the ice on the way home.

Notes

Grand River is on the north coast of Prince County, Prince Edward Island. - BS

References

  1. Ives-DullCare, pp. 210-212, 242, "The Bonny Flora Clark" (1 text, 1 tune)
  2. Roud #13986
  3. BI, IvDC210
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