Bonnie Mary was Mary Campbell, Rabbie Burns's Highland Mary. She tragically died at only 23 years old. Rabbie had planned to whisk her off to Jamaica in 1786 but she passed away before the voyage. The tune was written by two Englishmen Charles Jeffries and Sidney Nelson in 1850. They also wrote the Rose of Allendale.
Note the spelling of Argyle
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