By Aaron Galbraith
Here is another Dylan lyric with no music, plus an invite to you to create the song and have it published here.
I’m going to go out on a limb and say it was probably set to the same music as Song To Woody…but who knows so if you are of a musical frame of mind you can do what they want with it!
Song To Bonny
The lyrics date from about the same time as “Talkin’ Hugh Brown and “Bonnie Why’d you Cut my Hair?” and Heylin says it “appears to be Dylan’s first serious attempt to put a real girl into one of his own songs.
Heylin also ventures the notion that the song may have been sung to the tune of “1913 Massacre” and tells us that Bonny later married Hugh Romney.
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