Annotation:Bonnie Sailor (The)
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BONNIE SAILOR, THE. AKA and see "Marlborough House." English, Air (cut time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. The melody, as entered by Cumbrian musician John Rook into his 1840 music manuscript collection, seems to be a song air adapted from a country dance tune printed in the Dancing Master early in the 18th century. The song version was printed in Calliope, or the Musical Miscellany (1788, Song 141, pp. 266-267), The Goldfinch, or, New modern songster (1782), Roundelay: Or the New Siren (1783) and other such later 18th century songsters. The song begins:
My bonny sailor's won my mind!
My heart is now with him at sea;
I hope the summer's western breeze
Will bring him safely back to me!
I wish to hear what glorious toils;
What dangers he has undergone:
What forts he storm'd, how great the spoils
From France and Spain my sailor's won.