  This song is said to have been written by a Mr James Robson, Stone Mason, at Thropton, near Rothbury, who was leader of the band in the Pretender’s Army, in 1715: he wrote a Satyr on Women, and several other pieces, while confined prisoner at Preston, in Lancashire. O bonny Hobby Elliott, O canny Hobby still, O bonny Hobby Elliott, Who lives at Harlow-hill: Had Hobby acted right, As he has seldom done, He would have kiss’d his wife, And let his maid alone. |
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