bonie

• “He is blamed for someone's death and set to be put to death himself; his wife rides out and ransoms him, and it ends with him saying, "The fairest flower o woman-kind/Is my sweet bonie lady.”

  water song

• “For my bonie laddie’s young, but he’s growin’ yet.”

  Song-Lady Mary Ann

• “But the rapturous charm o’ the bonie green knowes,”

  Song-A Lass wi’ a Tocher

• “Ilk spring they’re new deckit wi’ bonie white yowes.”

  Song-A Lass wi’ a Tocher

• “They wait on bonie Ann. The captive bands may chain the hands,”

  Song-Beware o’ Bonie Ann

• “Down by yon stream, and yon bonie castle-green; 10”

  Song-The Tear-drop-“Wae is my heart”

• “Blythe, blythe, &c. Her bonie face it was as meek15”

  Song-Blythe was She

• “For it’s like a baumy kiss o’ her sweet, bonie mou; 10”

  Song-The Posie

• “Theniel Menzies’ bonie Mary, &c. We lap a’ danc’d the lee-lang day,”

  Song-Theniel Menzies’ Bonie Mary

• “Another "Highland Laddie" is also in the "Museum," vol. v., which I take to be Ramsay's original, as he has borrowed the chorus -- "O my bonie Highland lad," &c.”

  The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham

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