My Bonnie Lies Over The Ocean

artist:Kinder Tunes

, writer:H J Fuller

Chords:

 {t:My Bonnie Lies Over The Ocean}
{key: D}  
{artist: Kinder Tunes}  
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlwHrzr2u78 But in G
{c:Thanks to Gráinne Diskin }

My [D] bonnie lies [G] over the [D] ocean
My [D] bonnie lies [E7] over the [A7] sea
My [D] bonnie lies [G] over the [D] ocean
Oh [G] bring back my [A7] bonnie to [D] me

[D] Bring back,[G] bring [E7] back
Oh [A7] bring back my bonnie to [D] me, to me
[D] Bring back,[G] bring [E7] back
Oh [A7]  bring back my bonnie to [D] me

Oh [D] blow ye winds [G] over the [D] ocean
Oh [D] blow ye winds [E7] over the [A7] sea
Oh [D] blow ye winds [G] over the [D] ocean
And [G] bring back my [A7] bonnie to [D] me

[D] Bring back,[G] bring [E7] back
Oh [A7] bring back my bonnie to [D] me, to me
[D] Bring back,[G] bring [E7] back
Oh [A7] bring back my bonnie to [D] me

Last [D] night as I [G] lay on my [D] pillow
Last [D] night as I lay on my [A] bed
Last [D] night as I [G] lay on my [D] pillow
I [G] dreamed my poor [A] bonnie was [D] dead

[D] Bring back,[G] bring [E7] back
Oh [A7] bring back my bonnie to [D] me, to me
[D] Bring back,[G] bring [E7] back
Oh [A7] bring back my bonnie to [D] me

Song Info

Title: My Bonnie Lies Over The Ocean

Artist: Kinder Tunes

Writer: H J Fuller

Song Types: Celtic, Children, Folk

Key: G

Info: Although the song's origin is uncertain, its original subject could possibly be Charles Edward Stuart ('Bonnie Prince Charlie'): after the defeat of the Prince at the Battle of Culloden in 1746 and his subsequent exile, his Jacobite supporters could have sung this song or one like it in his honour; and thanks to the ambiguity of the term "Bonnie", which can refer to a woman as well as to a man, they could pretend it was a love song.

The English traditional singing group The Watersons, on their 1975 album "For Pence and Spicy Ale" sing a song from the English tradition called "My Barney Lies over the Ocean" which has a slightly different melody and is said to be an antecedent.

In the liner notes for the song, the musicologist A. L. Lloyd says about "My Barney": "A stage song favoured by Irish comedians from the 1860s on. During the 1880s, apparently on American university campuses, close harmony groups remade it into the better-known�"and even more preposterous�"'My Bonny Lies over the Ocean'. Watersons had this from Bob Davenport who learnt it from a Frank Quinn 78."

In 1881, under the duo of pseudonyms H.J. Fuller and J.T. Wood, Charles E. Pratt published sheet music for "Bring Back My Bonnie to Me".

Theodore Raph in his 1964 book American Song Treasury: 100 Favorites, writes that people were requesting the song at sheet music stores in the 1870s, and Pratt was convinced to publish a version of it under the pseudonyms, and the song became a big hit, especially popular with college singing groups but also popular for all group singing situations.

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My Bonnie Lies Over The Ocean

artist:Kinder Tunes

, writer:H J Fuller

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