Bonnie Bessie Lee

 BONNIE BESSIE LEE. Scottish, Strathspey. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA'B. "Bonnie Bessie Lee" is the title of a poem and song lyric by Robert Nicoll (1814–37), a Perthshire-born writer of some merit who published his volume in 1835. It begins: Bonnie Bessie Lee had a face fu’ o’ smiles, ''And mirth round her ripe lip was aye dancing slee;' ' And light was the footfa’, and winsome the wiles, O’ the flower o’ the parochin—our ain Bessie Lee. As a song, it was very popular in Victorian times, and appears in Gavin Greig's Scots Minstrelsie (vol. 5) Printed source: Kerr (Merry Melodies), vol. 3; No. 69, p. 9.

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