The Bonnie Lass of Fyvie / Pretty Peggy-O

Written by: [Traditional]
Language: English
Comments: [Roud 545; G/D 1:84; Ballad Index SBoA020; Bodleian Roud 545; Wiltshire 971; trad.]. The Bonnie Lass o' Fyvie is a traditional Scottish folk song about a thwarted romance between a soldier and a girl. There is no strict version of the lyrics and the song has multiple variants including Handoms Polly-O, Peggy-O, Fennario, and The Maid of Fife. The Americanized variant is usually called "Peggy-O".

[Verse One - Bonnie Lass of Fyvie]
There once was a troop o' Irish dragoons
Cam marching doon through Fyvie-o
And the captain's fa'en in love wi' a very bonnie lass
And her name it was ca'd pretty Peggy-o
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The Bonnie Lass of Fyvie / Pretty Peggy-O written by [Traditional] English

	Title	Performer	Release date	Info
	The Bonnie Lass of Fyvie	John Strachan	1955
	The Maid of Fife-E-O	The Clancy Bros. & Tommy Makem	May 1961
	Fennario	The Journeymen	October 1961
	The Bonnie Lass of Fyvie	Ewan MacColl with Peggy Seeger	1961
	Pretty Peggy-O	Bob Dylan	March 19, 1962
	Bonnie Lass o' Fyvie	Andy Stewart with Orchestra conducted by Bernard Ebbinghouse	July 1962
	The Bonnie Lass O'Fyvie	Jean Redpath	1962
	Peggy-O	Derek Sarjeant	1962
	Peggy-O	Hoyt Axton	1962	Live
	Fannerio	Judy Collins	1962
	The Bonny Streets of Fyve-io	The Chad Mitchell Trio	September 1963
	Fennario	Joan Baez	November 1963	Live
	Peggy-O	Simon and Garfunkel	October 19, 1964
	The Bonnie Lass o' Fyvie	Nigel Denver	1964
	The Bonnie Lass of Fyvie	The Dubliners	1964	Live
	Fennario	Liz Getz	1965
	Fennario	Bob Lind	1966
	The Bonnie Lass of Fyvie	The Corries	1970
	Handsome Polly-O	Martin Carthy	1972
	Pretty Peggyo	Ian A. Anderson	1972	Unverified
	Lass of Fyve	The Band of the Black Watch	1976
	The Bonnie Lass of Fyvie	Jimmy McBeath	1978
	Fennario	Jerry Garcia	November 1982
	The Bonnie Lass O'Fyvie	Old Blind Dogs	1992
	The Bonnie Lass o Fyvie	Noel McLoughlin	1995
	The Bonnie Lass of Fyvie	The Irish Rovers	November 15, 1996
	Pretty Peggy-O	Svante Karlsson	July 4, 1999
	Peggy-O	Grateful Dead	October 1999	Live
	Pretty Peggy-O	Mason Brown and Chipper Thompson	1999
	The Bonnie Lass of Fyvie	Malinky	April 18, 2000
	Maid of Fife	The McSweeney Brothers	2001	Unverified
	Pretty Peggy-O	Doug Wallin	2002
	Pretty Peggy-O	Donna Ray Norton	June 1, 2007
	The Bonnie Lass o Fyvie	Gordon Easton	2007	Live
	Frenario	Jefferson Starship	2008
	Peggy-O	Among the Oak & Ash	June 16, 2009
	Peggy-O	Marien Dorleijn	April 20, 2011
	Peggy-O	The National [US1]	September 9, 2016
	Pretty Peggy-O	David Holt & Josh Goforth	2016
	Peggy-O	Claude Martin	October 7, 2017
i	Peggy-O	Brad Berry	2019	Unverified

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