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Bonny Lighter​-​Boy (Roud 843)

from Findings by Ange Hardy & Lukas Drinkwater

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Lukas: “This song was a total gamble. We found the words for this online, neither of us knew it at all so we arranged our own version solely based on the lyrics. As a result this probably isn't the way this song is supposed to sound, but it's the way the song sounded to us.

Following extensive research (well, asking various people in folk clubs) we're pretty sure a lighter is a type of flat-bottomed barge used to transfer goods and passengers to and from moored ships...”

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It’s of a brisk young sailor lad, he was apprentice bound, and she a merchant’s daughter with fifty thousand pound. They loved each other dearly in sorrow and in joy. “Let him go where he will, he’s my love still, my bonny lighter-boy.”

“It was in my father’s garden, beneath the willow tree, he took me up all up in his arms kissed me tenderly. It was on the ground we both sat down and talked of love and joy. Let him go where he will, he’s my love still, My bonny lighter-boy.”

Let him go where he will (go where he will), let him go where he will my bonny lighter-boy.

Her father, being near her, he heard what she did say and cried: “Unruly daughter! I’ll send him far away! Upon a ship I’ll have him pressed and rob you of your joy!”

“Let him go where he will, he’s my love still, my bonny lighter-boy!”

Let him go where he will (go where he will), let him go where he will my bonny lighter-boy.

credits

from Findings, released September 14, 2016
Ange Hardy (vocals), Lukas Drinkwater (vocals, guitar, double bass), Archie Churchill-Moss (diatonic accordion), Ciaran Algar (fiddle), Evan Carson (percussion).

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Nominated for the Horizon Award for best emerging talent at the 2015 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards, Ange Hardy is a folk singer, songwriter and recording artist from West Somerset, England. Ange performs original contemporary songs written in a traditional style with an emphasis on vocal harmony. ... more

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