Alex Milson - Molly Bawn



This song is about a man who’s true love, Molly Bawn, has died and he is remembering their time together. There is repeated mention of a place called ‘Loch Lee’. Recorded in 1965 at the Miramichi Folk Song Festival.

This song is sung with guitar accompaniment. This song appears elsewhere in the Manny collection as (038-05), (032-10), (052-02), and (074-08).

Sources Edit
A version of this song appears online at http://www.mun.ca/folklore/leach/songs/NFLD1/1-10.htm

As the existence of one version printed by Daly of Cork, Ireland proves, old versions of this song which had the protagonist accidentally shooting his beloved Molly Bawn greatly pre-date the known Miramichi versions. For the Cork and other variants see http://ballads.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/ - a good deal about the history and variants of this song can be found here

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