Bonny Banks of the Virgie O- Snow (NL)1929 Karpeles B

Bonny Banks of the Virgie O- Snow (NL)1929 Karpeles B


[My abbreviated title, single ending stanza with music- other stanzas not given. Version D is listed under “The Bonny Banks of Virgie-O”  from Folk Songs from Newfoundland by Maud Karpeles, collected in 1929.

R. Matteson 2012, 2014]



B. Bonny Banks of the Virgie O- Sung by Miss Florrie Snow (15) at North River, Conception Bay, 17th
October 1929

He cries: My God what have I done?
On a lee and a lonely O,
I've killed my sisters all but one
On the bonny, bonny banks of the Virgie-O.