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Bonny Bobby Shafto. Bobby Shafto's gettin' a bairn, For to dangle on his arm; In his arm and on his knee, Bobby Shafto loves me. [1] Other publications have made changes to some of the words, including the spelling of the last name: Bobby Shaftoe's gone to sea, With silver buckles on his knee; He'll come back and marry me, Pretty Bobby Shaftoe!
Robert Shafto (sometimes spelt Shaftoe) (circa 1732 – 24 November 1797) was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1760 and 1790. He was the likely subject of a famous North East English folk song and nursery rhyme , " Bobby Shafto's Gone to Sea " ( Roud #1359).
Bobby Shaftoe's gyen to sea, Silver buckles at his knee; He'll come back an' marry me, Bonny Bobby Shaftoe. Bobby Shaftoe's bright and fair, Kaimin' doon his yellow hair; He's my awn for iver mair, Bonny Bobby Shaftoe. Bobby Shaaftoe's getten a bairn For to dandle on his airm; In his airm an' on his knee, Bonny Bobby Shaftoe. Bobby Shaftoe's ...
Melanie Harold leads on "Bobby Shaftoe". The album was released on the Music for Pleasure label. Another similar album was released in 1983, called "The Drunken Sailor". The rights for "Music for Pleasure" were sold to EMI Gold, who released an hour-long cassette called "Favourite Nursery Rhymes" in 1985.
This rhyme was first recorded in A. E. Bray's Traditions of Devonshire (Volume II, pp. 287–288). Needles and Pins: United Kingdom 1842 [69] First recorded in the proverbs section of James Orchard Halliwell's The Nursery Rhymes of England. Old King Cole: Great Britain 1709 [70]
My bairn's a bonny bairn: a nursery song: 67: All the neet ower and ower: a nursery song: 67: A hen's a hungry dish: a nursery song: 68: Ship is all laden (The) not given: 69: Forget thee, Canny Sunderland, No ! Sir Walter Scott: October 1827: 69: brief history of: Shipping Trade at the time: 70: Sair Fail'd, Hinney: not given: Variation on ...
The song was recorded in many different musical styles; for example, the country group The Leake County Revelers recorded a country version in 1927 with the title "My Bonnie Lies over the Ocean", [11] a big band version was recorded by Glen Gray and the Casa Loma Orchestra in 1938, [12] and a calypso-style version by Ella Fitzgerald with Bobby ...
"A Sailor Went to Sea" is a traditional children's clapping game, and skipping rhyme. It was initially called 'My Father Went to Sea', before becoming more widely known as 'A Sailor Went to Sea'. It was initially called 'My Father Went to Sea', before becoming more widely known as 'A Sailor Went to Sea'.