"Bonnie George Campbell" Performance
Added 2021-04-02 14:40:58 +0000 UTCgDGBD relative (dβ―BβDβ―GBβ actual). I learned "Bonnie George Campbell" from a recording of Bascom Lamar Lunsford. Frank Proffitt recorded it as "Bonnie James Campbell." Lunsford thought this song was an older variant of "Cumberland Gap."
It's high upon highland low upon Tay
Bonnie George Campbell rode out on one day,
All saddled all bridled and booted rode he
Home came the saddle but never came he.
A plume in his bonnet a sword at his knee
Home came the saddle but never came he,
Home came the saddle all bloody to see
Home came the good horse but never came he.
His wife came inside to escape the night air
She sat at the table and wept in despair,
My barn is unbuilt my child is unborn
But Bonnie George Campbell will never return.
My fence is to mend and wheat is unshorn
Bonnie George Campbell will never return,
Home came the saddle all bloody to see
Home came the good horse but never came he.
