Hopekirk: “Lady John Scott has stated that she and Sir John picked up both words and melody from a poor little boy, who was singing in the streets of Edinburgh.”
Locations in Harold's Library
- Scots Minstrelsie (Volume 3) (book) with the title "The Bonnie Banks o' Loch Lomon'"
- page 352
- Credits: John Greig (arranger)
- Instrumentation: voice • piano
- Key: F
- Time signature: C
- Tempo indication: Un poco andante e con espressione
- Notes: "Words probably dating from about 1746" "Old Melody"
- Seventy Scottish Songs (book) with the title "By yon bonnie banks"
- page 20
- Credits: Helen Hopekirk (arranger)
- Instrumentation: voice • piano
- Key: G
- Time signature: C
- Tempo indication: Moderato
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