The Bonny Cuckoo was created by Gail Ticknor, Gail’s Maggots, 1996. Published in CDSS News, March-April 1986 and The Blind Harper Dances, Allison Thompson, ed. 2003. Paul Stamler says, “‘Bonny Cuckoo’ is a song, sung to the tune of “Sheebeg and Sheemore,” hence the name of the dance. Shirley Collins recorded it on her 1959 debut album on Folkways.”
Presented in 2009 by Bruce Hamilton. View the pdf here.
