The Bonny Hind
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Template:Short description Template:Wikisource/outer coreScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters"."The Bonny Hind" (Roud 205, Child 50) is a traditional English-language folk song.[1]
Synopsis
A squire persuades a maiden to lie with him. Afterward, she asks his name, and he reveals that he is a lord's son. She calls him a liar: she is that lord's daughter. The horror-struck son reveals that he was long at sea. She stabs herself to death, and he buries her. He goes home and grieves for a "bonny hind" whatever his father can do to distract him.[2]
Recordings
- June Tabor, Abyssinians (1983)
- Ewan MacColl, Blood & Roses Volume 4 (1986)
- Martin Carthy, Signs of Life (1998)
- Michael John Harris & Martyn Bates, Murder Ballads (Incest Songs) (1998)
See also
Ballads on a similar theme:
References
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- ↑ Francis James Child, English and Scottish Popular Ballads, "The Bonny Hind"
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