The Bonnie Lass o' Fyvie (Roud # 545) is a Scottish folk song about a thwarted romance between a soldier and a woman. Like many folk songs, the authorship...
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The sundial is dated 1824. The song The Bonnie Lass o' Fyvie tells of a captain of dragoons who dies for the love of a Fyvie girl. Additionally, the song...
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carrier pigeon The Bonnie Lass o' Fyvie, a Scottish folk song Solway Lass, an Australian two-master tall ship Tullaghmurray Lass, a prawn fishing boat lost...
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teams on the Esplanade of Edinburgh Castle in the capital of Scotland. The event is held each August as one of the Edinburgh Festivals. The term tattoo...
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the frequent refrain "don't murder me", he eventually "collects his due". The location named "Fennario" appears in the folk song "The Bonnie Lass o'...
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innocent maids. "The Trooper and the Maid" (Child Ballad 299) is one. Most famous of all is "The Bonnie Lass o' Fyvie" (Pretty Peggy-O), covered by Simon...
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List of folk songs by Roud number (category Pages using the JsonConfig extension)
list of songs by their Roud Folk Song Index number; the full catalogue can also be found on the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library website. Some publishers...
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John Mearns sang "The Bonnie Lass o' Fyvie" on the broadcast. Fyvie is about 3 miles from Crichie. On 16 July 1951, John Strachan sang the song for Alan Lomax...
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At the ARIA Music Awards of 2000, the album won the ARIA Award for Best World Music Album. "The Bonnie Lass o' Bon-Accord Set" "The Cradle Song" "The Haggis...
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The Voice of the People is an anthology of folk songs produced by Topic Records containing recordings of traditional singers and musicians from England...
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Edinburgh shall be / The biggest and bonniest o' the three", Wilson 1954, p. 17 Chambers 1842, p. 8. Modern variant "Fyvie, Fyvie thou'll never thrive...
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Andrew Lammie (redirect from Mill o' Tifty)
event, with the heroine "Bonnie Annie" being buried in the churchyard at Fyvie. In 1825, Peter Buchan described the song as "one of the greatest favourites...
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Johnie Cock (redirect from Jock o' Braidislee)
can be heard on the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library website, including versions by Bell Duncan of Ythan Wells and John Strachan of Fyvie (who was later...
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The Child Ballads is the colloquial name given to a collection of 305 ballads collected in the 19th century by Francis James Child and originally published...
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were found to exist. The folklorist Alan Lomax recorded John Strachan of Fyvie, Aberdeenshire singing a version in 1957, which is publicly available online...
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