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"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]

References

  1. ^ Huntington, Gale; Herrmann, Lani. Sam Henry's Songs of the People. University of Georgia Press. p. 88. ISBN 978-0-8203-3625-1.
  2. ^ Morrish, John. 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. Napoleon and British Song, 1797-1822. Springer. p. 138. ISBN 978-1-137-55538-0.
  4. ^ Thompson, Harold W.; Cutting, Edith E. 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. p. 107.
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