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from Volkslieder (Folksongs)

Bonny at morn
Language: Scottish (Scots) 
Our translations:  FRE GER
The sheep's in the [meadow]1, 
  The [kye's]2 in the corn,
Thou's [ower lang]3 in thy bed, 
  Bonny at morn,
    Canny at night,
Thou's [ower lang]3 in thy bed,
  Bonny at morn.

The bird's in the [bush]4, 
  The trout's in the burn;
Thou [hinderest]5 thy mother 
  In many a turn.
    Canny at night, 
  Bonny at morn,
Thou's ower lang in thy bed,
  Bonny at morn.

We're all laid idle 
  Wi' keeping the bairn,
[The lass wi' net learn,
  The lad wi' net work]6.
    Canny at night, 
  Bonny at morn,
Thou's ower lang in thy bed,
  Bonny at morn.

Available sung texts:   ← What is this?

•   D. Banks •   B. Britten 

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Confirmed with Littell's Living Age, Volume 198, page 376.

1 Britten: "meadows"
2 Banks: "cow's"
3 Banks: "overlong"
4 Banks, Britten: "nest"
5 Banks, Britten: "hinders"
6 Banks: "The lad will not work/ and the lass will not learn"; Britten: "The lad winnot work/ And the lass winnot lairn"

Text Authorship:

  • from Volkslieder (Folksongs) , "Bonny at Morn" [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

  • by Don Banks (1923 - 1980), "Bonny at Morn", 1953 [ voice and piano or strings ], from Five North Country Folk Songs, no. 4 [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by (Edward) Benjamin Britten (1913 - 1976), "Bonny at morn", 1976 [ voice and harp ], from 8 Folk Song Arrangements, no. 4 [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Ernest Bristow Farrar (1885 - 1918), "Bonny at morn", op. 28 no. 1, published 1927 [ voice and piano ], from North Country Folk Tunes, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

  • FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Beau le matin", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • GER German (Deutsch) [singable] (Bertram Kottmann) , "Niedlich am Morgen", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Virginia Knight

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 23
Word count: 107

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