“The Bonny Sailor Boy”

Description

A rich girl and a poor sailor are in love. The girl's father hears them courting in the garden, bursts in, and threatens the boy with transportation. The girl swears to remain faithful

Notes

OLochlainn-More 18: the boy is "a weaver lad and him apprentice bound." Roud makes this version #2934.

Morton-Maguire is like another Irish version (OLochlainn-More) in that the apprentice is a weaver; it ends "And so she sang and the valleys rang and she gained her apprentice boy." - BS

Recordings

• Jimmy McBeath, "My Darling Ploughman Boy" (on FSB1)

References

1. Laws M22, "The Bonny Sailor Boy"
2. Kennedy 163, "My Darling Ploughman Boy" (1 text, 1 tune, much worn down)
3. Ord, p. 328, "My Bonnie Sailor Boy" (1 text)
4. Creighton/Senior, p. 179, "Jolly Young Sailor Boy" (1 text, 1 tune)
5. OLochlainn-More 18, "The Newry Prentice Boy" (1 text, 1 tune)
6. Morton-Maguire 39, pp. 127-128,171, "The Dandy Apprentice Boy" (1 text, 1 tune)
7. DT 745, BONSAIL*
8. Roud #843
9. BI, LM22