Swan Swims Bonnie- Ann Baillie (Ayr) 1827 Macqueen
[Single stanza from Andrew Crawfurd's collection of ballads and songs, Volume 2, edited Lyle; Scottish Text Society, 1996. His notes follow,
R. Matteson 2018]
All that is known to have been recorded from Ann Baillie, Newton Ayr, is the following stanza of a version of Child 10 The Twa Sisters which is headed No 108 A stanza of the Bonnie Bows of London' (2.62):
They made a harp of her breast bane
Hey ho my Nanie O
And it began and harpit its lane[1]
And the swan swims bonnie O.
1. means "by its lone" (all alone) or "by itself."
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