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There is considerable doubt that "My Bonnie Lies over the Ocean" has anything whatsoever to do with Bonnie Prince Charlie. The song more closely matches the style of late 1800's music hall singing. As it happens, that is the first era in which the song shows up in any way in print (in New York City). I have added a paragraph which puts that in better perspective. I have also changed some words framing the Bonnie Prince Charlie speculation with much less certainty than the way it was originally presented. There's an interesting discussion of both songs (Bonnie and Barney) and their variants (many of them quite bawdy) on the Mudcat.org website, where one folklorist has rather eloquently stated: "If this is a Jacobite song, I'm Attila the Hun." Ramseyman (talk) 23:10, 30 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Other Version of MY BONNIE COMES OVER THE OCEAN

There was a boy at the Ottawa Child Study Centre when I was there who sang a bizarre version of MY BONNIE COMES OVER THE OCEAN that went something like this:

My mommy lay back on her pillow, My daddy came in for some tea(?). My daddy lay over my mommy: That's how they invented me! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Glammazon (talk • contribs) 18:07, 3 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Reference (1) for the opening sentence is probably bogus

The opening sentence is referenced to "Lars Christian Lundholm (2013). My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean for Piano and Trumpet. ISBN 9781300741497. ... This traditional and popular Scottish folk song relates to the Battle of Culloden in 1746 after which Prince Charles Edward Stuart was exiled."

But I cannot find any reference to a Lars Christian Lundholm on Wikipedia except this article on My Bonnie, and by Googling he is exclusively associated with sites selling his arrangements of a wide variety of musical scores sold cheaply on sites like Amazon and Apple, always associated with "Pure Sheet Music". When, for example, you use the Apple music app to download the sheet music to an iPhone (which gives a mal-named grainy graphics file, after you rename .png to .jpg), there is also a welcome to visit the www.puresheetmusic.com site. However visiting this site results in chinese characters and an unauthorized notice. Whether or not Lars Christian Lundholm is legit (and it appears not to be), this is a ridiculous citation for the article and has no validity. Someone should fix this. Roricka (talk) 05:16, 31 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

In fact I am going to delete the citation if I can, and then perhaps it will be flagged as needing documentation. Roricka (talk) 05:19, 31 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]