My Bonny Lad- Angelo Dornan (NB) 1954 Creighton E
[My title. From: Maritime Folk Songs by Helen Creighton 1962.
Listen: https://soundcloud.com/catherinecrowe/sets/field-recordings-of-angelo
R. Matteson 2016]
"My Bonny Lad." Sung by Mr. Angelo Dornan, Elgin, N.B., September, 1954. Learned from his father. Dates back to c.1911.
1. "O father, dear father you have me undone,
For you married mt to a boy who is too young,
I am twice twelve, he is scarcely fourteen,
O my bonny lad he's long, long a-growing.
2 "O daughter, dearest daughter, I have not you undone,
For I have married you to a rich lord's son,
And if you wait awhile a rich lord he will be,
O he's young but he's daily a-growing."
3 At the age of eighteen, oh his grave was growing green
And so that put an end to his growing.