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Bonnie Dundee is the of title of a poem and a song written by Walter Scott in 1825 in honour of John Graham, 7th Laird of Claverhouse, who was created 1st Viscount Dundee in November 1688, then in 1689 led a Jacobite rising in which he died, becoming a Jacobite hero.〔The Project Gutenberg eBook of Encyclopædia Britannica 1911, Volume VIII Slice VIII - Dubner to Dyeing. (Dundee, John Graham Of Claverhouse )〕 The older tune ''Bonny Dundee'' adapted by Scott had already been used for several songs appearing under variations of that title and referring to the bonnie town of Dundee rather than to Claverhouse.〔The Project Gutenberg eBook of Encyclopædia Britannica 1911, Volume VIII Slice VIII - Dubner to Dyeing. (Dundee )〕 Scott's song has been used as a regimental march by several Scottish regiments in the British Army and was adapted by Confederate troops during the American Civil War. ==Bonny Dundee: tunes and songs== ''Bonny Dundee'' is a very old Scottish folk-tune used for at least fifteen songs,〔See Nigel Gatherer, Songs and Ballads of Dundee (John Donald, Edinburgh, 1986), p. 131.〕 A simpler version of the tune appears in the Skene manuscript around 1630 under the title ''Adew, Dundee''. The title ''Bonny Dundee'' for the tune appears in an appendix to John Playford's 1688 edition of ''The Dancing Master'', an English publication. The tune has been used for the following popular song:〔(''The songs of Scotland prior to Burns. With the tunes'' ), edited by Robert Chambers (Edinburgh: W. & R. Chambers, 1862) (Hall.275.d ), Robert Chambers, pp. 132–135 (be formatted )〕 :O whaur gat ye that hauver-meal bannock? ::Silly blind body, O dinna ye see? :I gat it frae a brisk sodger laddie, ::Atween Saint Johnstone and Bonnie Dundee. :O, gin I saw the laddie that gae me't! ::Aft has he doudl'd me on o' his knee. :But now he's awa', and I dinner ken whaur he's, ::O gin he was back to his minnie and me! "Saint Johnstone" refers to Perth, and "Bonny Dundee" is the town of Dundee.〔 This song was parodied in English publications of the early 18th century with coarser wording, under the title ''Jockey's Deliverance, or the Valiant Escape from Dundee'', to be sung "to an Excellent Tune, called ''Bonny Dundee''." A 1719 collection titled the parody ''Jockey's Escape from Dundee; and the Parsons Daughter whom he had Mowd'', and its chorus featured variations on "Come open the Gates, and let me go free, And shew me the way to bonny Dundee". Robert Burns rewrote the second verse of the original, so that the latter lines were "May Heaven protect my Bonnie Scots laddie, and send him safe hame to his baby and me." He added a concluding verse with the promise to the baby to 'bigg a bower on yon bonnie banks, where Tay rins dimpling by sae clear", alluding to the River Tay.〔 Another version of the original, titled ''Scots Callan O' Bonnie Dundee'', refers to a callant (lad) rather than a soldier, and a "bonnie blue bonnet" instead of a bannock.〔(Broadside ballad entitled 'Scots Callan O' Bonnie Dundee' ), published around 1890–1900〕 The tune is used for unrelated words in a broadside ballad published in 1701 under the title ''Bonny Dundee'', suggesting that it was to be sung to this melody, and in John Gay's ''The Beggar's Opera'' published in 1765.〔(p. 87 ) of ''The Beggar's Opera'' written by Mr. Gay, London : Printed for J. and R. Tonson, 1765.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bonnie Dundee」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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