Talk:Bobby Shafto's Gone to Sea

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To whom it may concern: the midi file link is dead. Cheers. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.21.29.48 (talk) 15:32, 28 December 2009 (UTC)

Is there also not another verse:

Bobby Shafto's tall and thin Always dressed so neat and trim

Lassies, they all smile at him

Bonnie Bobby Shafto

—Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.4.21.238 (talk) 12:59, 12 July 2010 (UTC)

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Wooley Foster
Came across this version in The Book of Nursery Rhymes Complete (1846) which uses "Wooley Foster" instead of Bobby Shafto, in addition to a verse which doesn't rhyme unless you pronounce "cow" as "coo" (as in Scottish): Wooley Foster has gone to sea, With silver buckles at his knee, When he comes back he'll marry me,
 * Bonny Wooley Foster.

Wooley Foster has a cow, Black and white about the mow, Open the gates and let her through,
 * Wooley Foster's ain cow.

Wooley Foster has a hen, Cockle button, cockle ben, She lays eggs for gentlemen,
 * But none for Wooley Foster.

- Einstein95 (talk) 23:30, 23 October 2022 (UTC)