Song To Bonny

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Song To Bonny by Bob Dylan and ‘Les Paul’s’ (The Paul’s) in conjunction with Untold Dylan. Bonnie Beecher is purportedly the ‘real’ Girl From The North Country.
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You can read Bonnie Beecher’s Wikipedia entry HERE and a short interview with Bonnie HERE and the lyrics to Bonnie Why’d You Cut My Hair are Bonnie why d’you cut my hair/Bonnie why d’you cut my hair/Bonnie why d’you cut my hair/I can’t go nowhere/Sitting down all alone/Sitting down all alone/Ain’t go no hair on my head/Aint got enough to use a comb/Is your hair Bonnie(Unclear lines)/Hey hey ho
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You can watch Bonnie Beecher (Jahanara Romney) talking about teaching Dylan to play the piano and about his harmonica playing HERE.
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Bonnie Beecher talking about her visit with Dylan to Woody Guthrie at Greystone Hospital HERE.
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Bonnie Becher talking about Dylan emulating Woody Guthrie HERE
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‘The Minnesota Hotel Tape’ 22/12/1961 Dylan singing at Bonnie Beecher’s apartment Dinkytown, Minnesota HERE.
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Bonnie Beecher singing Come Wander With Me (by Bonnie Beecher & Jeff Alexander) HERE.
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You can read the original call out to compose music and turn the lyrics into a song, where you can also read the original lyrics on the Untold Dylan site HERE.
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Join ‘Les Paul’s’ (The Paul’s) on Facebook HERE and on Reverbnation HERE and on Bandcamp HERE.
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Song To Bonny Lyrics
My Mother raised me tenderly
I was her pride and joy
She never meant for me to be
No wanderin’ homeless boy

I’m writing a song to a girl I once knew
It wasn’t so long but it seems so long ago
This ain’t no love song, none of its kind
It’s a song of remembrance of a girl in my mind

Hey Bonny I’m singing to you now
This song I’m singing is the best I know how
The songbirds are singing their voices do ring
And I’ll think of you as long as they sing

Hey Bonny Beecher I think that you know
What I am doing and where I must go
Can’t give you no ring of diamond or gold
But I’ll think about you wherever I go

Springtime’s a comin’ and the grass will turn green
The flowers’ll bloom and the leaves on the trees
Will all turn in color and all seem to shade
The wild Mississippi where you sit and wait
Where you sit and wait

Hey hey Bonny I wrote you a song
Cause I don’t know if I’ll see you again
I want you to know whatever I do
I’ll always remember that I once was with you

Remember me baby I’s good to you one time
I’m a wandering boy and you’re in my wandering mind

Spring Time’s a comin’ and the grass’ll turn green
The flowers will bloom and the leaves on the trees
Will all turn in colors and all seems to shade
The wild Mississippi where you sit and wait
Where you sit and wait

Lyrics Bob Dylan/Paul Robert Thomas
Music Paul Odiase