My Bonnie Lies over the Ocean – Scottish folk song acoustic guitar & vocal solo by Jack Straw

My Bonnie Lies over the Ocean or just My Bonnie is a old traditional Scottish folk song. However, there is a song called Send Back My Barney to Me written by Harry Clifton that some of the American versions borrow from so the current version might be a bit of a hybrid. As I have not heard the original Scottish version, that I know of, I won't be the judge of that. It was first recorded by the Haydn Quartet in 1901.

Tons of covers as the tune is amendable to many musical styles. The Haydn Quartet is almost a Barbershop Quartet version. Loads of parodies also flourish around this melody as well.

My version I picked up like the common cold...as the tune is so ubiquitous. Although the 1928 Leake County Revelers recording is one I have heard. Normally, I play a more rollicking flat-picked version but went with a slow finger picking one for the first time.

Lyrics:
My Bonnie lies over the ocean
My Bonnie lies over the sea
My Bonnie lies over the ocean
Oh, bring back my Bonnie to me

Chorus
Bring back, bring back
Oh, bring back my Bonnie to me, to me
Bring back, bring back
Oh, bring back my Bonnie to me

Oh, blow ye winds over the ocean
Oh, blow ye winds over the sea
Oh, blow ye winds over the ocean
And bring back my Bonnie to me

Last night as I lay on my pillow
Last night as I lay on my bed
Last night as I lay on my pillow
I dreamt that my Bonnie was dead

The winds have blown over the ocean
The winds have blown over the sea
The winds have blown over the ocean
And brought back my Bonnie to me

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