Talk:My Bonnie Lies over the Ocean

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History[edit]

There is considerable doubt that "My Bonnie Lies over the Ocean" has anything whatsoever to do with Bonnie Prince Charlie. The song more closely matches the style of late 1800's music hall singing. As it happens, that is the first era in which the song shows up in any way in print (in New York City). I have added a paragraph which puts that in better perspective. I have also changed some words framing the Bonnie Prince Charlie speculation with much less certainty than the way it was originally presented. There's an interesting discussion of both songs (Bonnie and Barney) and their variants (many of them quite bawdy) on the Mudcat.org website, where one folklorist has rather eloquently stated: "If this is a Jacobite song, I'm Attila the Hun." Ramseyman (talk) 23:10, 30 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Other Version of MY BONNIE COMES OVER THE OCEAN[edit]

There was a boy at the Ottawa Child Study Centre when I was there who sang a bizarre version of MY BONNIE COMES OVER THE OCEAN that went something like this:

My mommy lay back on her pillow, My daddy came in for some tea(?). My daddy lay over my mommy: That's how they invented me! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Glammazon (talk • contribs) 18:07, 3 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Reference (1) for the opening sentence is probably bogus[edit]

The opening sentence is referenced to "Lars Christian Lundholm (2013). My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean for Piano and Trumpet. ISBN 9781300741497. ... This traditional and popular Scottish folk song relates to the Battle of Culloden in 1746 after which Prince Charles Edward Stuart was exiled."

But I cannot find any reference to a Lars Christian Lundholm on Wikipedia except this article on My Bonnie, and by Googling he is exclusively associated with sites selling his arrangements of a wide variety of musical scores sold cheaply on sites like Amazon and Apple, always associated with "Pure Sheet Music". When, for example, you use the Apple music app to download the sheet music to an iPhone (which gives a mal-named grainy graphics file, after you rename .png to .jpg), there is also a welcome to visit the www.puresheetmusic.com site. However visiting this site results in chinese characters and an unauthorized notice. Whether or not Lars Christian Lundholm is legit (and it appears not to be), this is a ridiculous citation for the article and has no validity. Someone should fix this. Roricka (talk) 05:16, 31 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

In fact I am going to delete the citation if I can, and then perhaps it will be flagged as needing documentation. Roricka (talk) 05:19, 31 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Archived In modern culture section[edit]

Although I agree with removing these unsourced information from the article, I find it harsh to deleting it altogether. Putting these here might encourage someone to finish the job and maybe rescue some of the most worthwhile.

In 1918, Billy Murray sung a comic parody version entitled, "My Barney Lies Over the Ocean" sung from a female perspective in which her significant other, Barney, is sent overseas for WW1 and is suspected of cheating and lying.
Arthur Housman's drunken character merrily sings this song in the Laurel & Hardy 1932 short Scram! whilst pouring liquor into a jug.
In the Woody Woodpecker 1944 cartoon The Beach Nut, this song is sung by Woody and by Wally Walrus.
In the Abbott and Costello film The Naughty Nineties (June 20, 1945), Costello auditions for Captain Sam's riverboat show by singing "My Bonnie". Behind him, Abbott shouts directions to the stage crew in setting up a backdrop curtain ("Move it to the left", "Lower", "Higher", "Lift up the right leg", etc.) Oblivious to this, Costello thinks Abbott is directing him and follows his every command, moving to the left, singing higher, lower, and so forth.
The song plays a prominent role in the I Love Lucy episode "The Quiz Show" (first aired November 10, 1951).
Alexa Kenin's character sings it in Honkytonk Man (1982), including the parody verse "My Bonnie has tuberculosis..."
Duane Eddy hit the US Top 30 and UK Top 15 in 1960 with an instrumental rock and roll version titled "Bonnie Came Back"
Bing Crosby included the song in a medley on his album On the Sentimental Side (1962).
In the 1965 comic story by Carl Barks The Phantom of Notre Duck, Scrooge McDuck installs an electronic door opener for his money bin that only opens to the tune of "My Bonnie Lies over the Ocean" played on a special fife.
In the 1985 Indonesian film Kesempatan dalam Kesempitan (id), in which the song was sung in a jazz tune.
Episode 13 of Season 1 of the television series Murder, She Wrote (1985) is entitled "My Johnny Lies Over The Sea"
An arrangement by Laura Smith with The Chieftains on their album Fire in the Kitchen (1998) proved popular.
Episode 17 of Season 15 ("My Big Fat Geek Wedding") of the television series The Simpsons (2004) uses "My Bonnie Lies over the Ocean" with a scene of Principal Skinner.
On March 14, 2011, In the sixteenth episode of season 7 of House MD entitled "Out of the Chute", Dr. Gregory House has his patient Lane (Chad Faust) recite "My Bonnie Lives over the Ocean" to help diagnose a neurological disorder that ultimately lead to Lane's heart problem.
Laura Wright recorded a version, featured on her album The Last Rose (2011)
MTV's Jackass Presents Bad Grandpa had the character Billy (Jackson Nicoll) and the Grandpa (Johnny Knoxville) decide to enter Billy as a girl into a girls beauty pageant and perform the song with a dance in one of the rounds.
In How I Met Your Mother (season 6 episode 10), Barney Stinson and Marshall Eriksen sing "My Blitzy Lies Over the Ocean" in reference to the "Blitz phenomenon" by which the "Blitzed" person misses all the amazing events at a party (they occur after the Blitz abandons the party).
In The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me, the main characters sing a song based on this one called "My Diamonds Lie over the Ocean."
Heard as an instrumental sea shanty in the queue line for the Under the Sea: Journey of the Little Mermaid attraction in Fantasyland since 2012 within Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World
Ray Charles recorded an R&B arrangement of the song in 1958 for Atlantic Records.
In Wolfenstein: The New Order, Fergus Reid can be heard singing the song, between his gunfire, during the assault on Deathshead's compound.
In 1939 it was a popular song among English air crews with the chorus changed to "Bring back, bring back, O bring back my bomber and me" [1] JeanPaulGRingault (talk) 13:49, 20 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]