Bonny Light Horseman (song)

"Bonny Light Horseman" (Roud 1185), also known as "Broken Hearted I Will Wander", is a folk song. The singer's romantic interest was killed while fighting against Napoleon in the Peninsular War.[1][2][3][4][5] It has been recorded by musicians including Nic Jones, Planxty, Lal and Norma Waterson, Rebecca Fox, Todd Menton, Oisin, Eliza Carthy, James Keelaghan and Nancy Kerr. The band Bonny Light Horseman was named after the song.

  1. ^ Huntington, Gale; Herrmann, Lani (June 2010). Sam Henry's Songs of the People. University of Georgia Press. p. 88. ISBN 978-0-8203-3625-1.
  2. ^ Morrish, John (2007). The Folk Handbook: Working with Songs from the English Tradition. Hal Leonard Corporation. p. 239. ISBN 978-0-87930-901-5.
  3. ^ Jensen, Oskar Cox (12 October 2015). Napoleon and British Song, 1797-1822. Springer. p. 138. ISBN 978-1-137-55538-0.
  4. ^ Thompson, Harold W.; Cutting, Edith E. (31 May 2018). A Pioneer Songster: Texts from the Stevens-Douglass Manuscript of Western New York, 1841-1856. Cornell University Press. p. 74. ISBN 978-1-5017-1754-3.
  5. ^ English Dance and Song. English Folk Dance and Song Society. 1976. p. 107.