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LITTLE BONNY
/. No. 1370. Ace. on guitar and sung by Fields Ward, Galax, Va., 1937.
A modern tune of the kind that can be easily accompanied with a couple of chords on a guitar, it is likely to be heard anywhere there is mountain music—over the radio and on "hill-billy" records. "Long Lonesome Road" belongs to the same category.*
Chorus:
Goodbye, little Bonny, goodbye, Goodbye, little Bonny, goodbye. Pll see you again, but the Lord knows when. Goodbye, little Bonny, goodbye.
i I asked your mamma for you 5 I asked your papa, too. They both said, "No, little Bonny can't go." That's all that I can do.
% My trunk is packed and gone, My trunk is packed and gone, My trunk is gone and I'm alone. Goodbye, little Bonny, goodbye.
* For other tunes of the same type, the same provenience and the same vintage, see also "Chilly Winds" and "As I Went Out for a Ramble."
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