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<p>Created page with &quot;No. 38. The Sign of the Bonny Blue Bell THE subject of the ballad is clearly related to “I’m going to be married on Sunday,” in Dr. Joyce’s &#039;&#039;Ancient Irish Music&#039;&#039; (N...&quot;</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>No. 38. The Sign of the Bonny Blue Bell<br /> <br /> THE subject of the ballad is clearly related to “I’m going to be married on Sunday,” in Dr. Joyce’s &#039;&#039;Ancient Irish Music&#039;&#039; (No. 17); while the first three lines of the initial stanza are identical with the corresponding lines of another song in the same volume (No. 72). The words are printed on a broadside by Williamson, Newcastle (circa 1850), and two short verses are given by Halliwell in his &#039;&#039;Nursery Rhymes&#039;&#039; (p. 94).<br /> <br /> A country-dance air, which, however, has nothing in common with the tune in the text, is printed by Walsh (1708), and in &#039;&#039;The Dancing Master&#039;&#039; (volume ii, ed. 1719), under the heading “I mun be marry’d a Tuesday.”<br /> <br /> The tune in the text is in the Æolian mode.</div>

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