My Bonnie Lies over the Ocean#Tony Sheridan and the Beatles

Although the song's origin is uncertain, its original subject could be Charles Edward Stuart ('Bonnie Prince Charlie'):{{cite book |title=Governments of greater European powers: a comparative study of the governments and political culture of Great Britain, France, Germany, and the Soviet Union, Volume 1 |author=Herman Finer |page=178 |publisher=Holt |year=1956}} after the defeat of the Prince at the Battle of Culloden in 1746 and his subsequent exile, his Jacobite supporters could have sung this song or one like it in his honour; and thanks to the ambiguity of the term "Bonnie", which can refer to a woman as well as to a man, they could pretend it was a love song.

In 1881, under the duo of pseudonyms H. J. Fuller and J. T. Wood, Charles E. Pratt published sheet music for "Bring Back My Bonnie to Me".{{Cite book |last=Burton |first=Jack |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=U6UYAAAAIAAJ&q=%22Bring+Back+My+Bonnie+to+Me%22+pratt |title=The Blue Book of Tin Pan Alley: A Human Interest Encyclopedia of American Popular Music |date=1962 |publisher=Century House |pages=9,47 |language=en}}{{Cite book |last=Raph |first=Theodore |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4VFOc6fXkSEC&dq=%22Bring+Back+My+Bonnie+to+Me%22+pratt&pg=PA201 |title=The American Song Treasury: 100 Favorites |date=1986-01-01 |publisher=Courier Corporation |isbn=978-0-486-25222-3 |pages=201–203 |language=en}}{{Cite book |last=Herder |first=Ronald |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nihSxGm-rjsC&dq=%22Bring+Back+My+Bonnie+to+Me%22+pratt&pg=PA231 |title=500 Best-loved Song Lyrics |date=1998 |publisher=Dover Publications |isbn=978-0-486-29725-5 |pages=231 |language=en}} Theodore Raph, in his 1964 book American Song Treasury: 100 Favorites, writes people were requesting the song at sheet music stores in the 1870, and Pratt was convinced to publish a version of it under the pseudonyms. The song became a big hit, especially popular with college singing groups, but also for any group singing.

Another song from the English tradition titled "My Barney Lies over the Ocean" has a slightly different melody, and it is said to be an antecedent of "My Bonnie". In the liner notes for 1975 album "For Pence and Spicy Ale" where the English traditional singing group The Watersons recorded a version, the musicologist A. L. Lloyd says about "My Barney": "A stage song favoured by Irish comedians from the 1860s on. During the 1880s, apparently on American university campuses, close harmony groups remade it into the better-known—and even more preposterous—'My Bonny Lies over the Ocean'. Watersons had this from Bob Davenport who learnt it from a Frank Quinn 78."The Watersons, "For Pence and Spicy Ale", Topic Records, catalogue no. 12TS265, 1975, UK

Many early recordings were recorded under the title "Bring Back My Bonnie to Me", such as the recording released by the vocal group Haydn Quartet in 1901.{{cite web|url= https://archive.org/details/78_bring-back-my-bonnie-to-me_haydn-quartet_gbia0426292a |title=Bring Back My Bonnie To Me by the Haydn Quartet |work=Internet Archive |year=1901 }} Others with the same title include an instrumental version by The Taylor Trio (1916),{{cite web |url=https://archive.org/details/78_bring-back-my-bonnie-to-me_gbia0313663a/BRING+BACK+MY+BONNIE+TO+ME.flac |title= Bring Back My Bonnie to Me |work=Internet Archive|year= 1916 }} and a vocal version by Alma Gluck and Orpheus Quartet (1918).{{cite web |url=https://archive.org/details/78_bring-back-my-bonnie-to-me_alma-gluck-and-orpheus-quartet_gbia0178103a/Bring+Back+My+Bonnie+to+Me+-+Alma+Gluck+and+Orpheus+Quartet.flac |title=Bring Back My Bonnie to Me by Alma Gluck and Orpheus Quartet |work=Internet Archive |year=1918 }} The song was recorded in many different musical styles; for example, the country group The Leake County Revelers recorded a country version in 1927 with the title "My Bonnie Lies over the Ocean",{{cite web |url=https://archive.org/details/78_my-bonnie-lies-over-the-ocean_leake-county-revelers_gbia0401334a/MY+BONNIE+LIES+OVER+THE+OCEAN+-+LEAKE+COUNTY+REVELERS.flac |title=My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean by The Leake County Levelers |work=Internet Archive|date=25 October 1927 }} a big band version was recorded by Glen Gray and the Casa Loma Orchestra in 1938,{{cite web |url=https://archive.org/details/78_my-bonnie-lies-over-the-ocean_glen-gray-and-the-casa-loma-orchestra-pee-wee-hunt_gbia0158295a/MY+BONNIE+LIES+OVER+THE+OCEAN+-+Glen+Gray+and+The+Casa+Loma+Orchestra.flac |title=My Bonnie Lies over the Ocean by Glen Gray the Casa Loma Orchestra, Pee Wee Hunt |work=Internet Archive |year=1938 }} and a calypso-style version by Ella Fitzgerald with Bobby Orton's Teen-Aces in 1952,{{cite magazine |magazine=Jet |volume= 22 |number= 21|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=y1sDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA60 |title=Teem Combo Features New Sounds|date=1952 |page=60 }}{{cite web|url=https://archive.org/details/78_my-bonnie-lies-over-the-ocean_ella-fitzgerald-bobby-ortons-teen-aces_gbia7020366b/MY+BONNIE+LIES+OVER+THE+OCEAN+-+Ella+Fitzgerald.flac |title=My Bonnie Lies over the Ocean by Ella Fitzgerald with Bobby Orton's Teen-Aces|work=Internet Archive }} released as the flip side of "Trying".{{cite magazine |magazine=Billboard|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PB8EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA42 |title=The Billboard Picks|date=August 23, 1952 |page=42 }}

In 1919, Billy Murray released a different song titled "My Barney Lies Over the Ocean (Just the Way He Lied to Me)", where a few modified lines of "My Bonnie" was used as the chorus. It was sung from a female perspective where she suspected her significant other (the "Barney" of the title) of cheating and lying.{{cite web |url=https://archive.org/details/78_my-barney-lies-over-the-ocean-just-the-way-he-lied-to-me_billy-murray-lewis-young_gbia0094443b/My+Barney+Lies+Over+the+Ocean+(Just+the+Way+-+Billy+Murray.flac |title=My Barney Lies Over the Ocean (Just the Way He Lied to Me |work=Archive.org |year=1919 }}

There have been a handful of field recordings of traditional versions. Birmingham resident Cecilia Costello was recorded singing a version by Peter Kennedy in 1951, whilst the "East Grinstead Old People's Club" of East Grinstead, Sussex, England sang a version to Ken Stubbs in 1960, which can be heard online via the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library website.{{Cite web|title=My Bonny (VWML Song Index SN29364)|url=https://www.vwml.org/record/VWMLSongIndex/SN29364|access-date=2020-10-10|website=The Vaughan Williams Memorial Library|language=en-gb}} Traditional versions of the song have also been recorded in the United States{{Cite web|title=Born in Hard Luck (Roud Folksong Index S414870)|url=https://www.vwml.org/record/RoudFS/S414870|access-date=2020-10-10|website=The Vaughan Williams Memorial Library|language=en-gb}} and Canada.{{Cite web|title=My Bonny Lies Over the Ocean (Roud Folksong Index S391994)|url=https://www.vwml.org/record/RoudFS/S391994|access-date=2020-10-10|website=The Vaughan Williams Memorial Library|language=en-gb}}

My Bonnie lies over the ocean,

My Bonnie lies over the sea,

My Bonnie lies over the ocean,

Oh, bring back my Bonnie to me.

[Chorus]

Bring back, bring back,

Oh, bring back my Bonnie to me, to me.

Bring back, bring back,

Oh, bring back my Bonnie to me.

Oh, blow ye winds over the ocean,

Oh, blow ye winds over the sea,

Oh, blow ye winds over the ocean,

And bring back my Bonnie to me.

[Repeat Chorus]

Last night as I lay on my pillow,

Last night as I lay on my bed,

Last night as I lay on my pillow,

I dreamt that my Bonnie was dead.

[Repeat chorus]

The winds have blown over the ocean,

The winds have blown over the sea,

The winds have blown over the ocean,

And brought back my Bonnie to me.

[Repeat chorus]

The structure and tune of the song made it a suitable vehicle for parody, and numerous variations and parodies of the song have been created over the years. Some of these may be sung as children songs,{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sHfVZFl4JTIC&pg=PA102 |title=American Children's Folklore |date=1988| pages=96, 102–193| publisher=August House|isbn=9780874830682|first=Simon J. |last=Bronner }}{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BTPh2zvOzmAC&pg=PA158 |title=Children's Folklore: A SourceBook|date=2012| page=158| publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=9781136546112 }} and many have become common campfire song for organizations such as the Boy Scouts.{{cite web

|url=https://www.scoutsongs.com/lyrics/mybonnie.html

|title=My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean

|quote=..pillow ... gas tank/match ... gin ...

|website=ScoutSongs.com}}{{Cite web |url=http://www.scouting.org.za/songs/action.html |title=Campfire Song Book - Audience participation songs |access-date=2009-08-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924095608/http://www.scouting.org.za/songs/action.html |archive-date=2015-09-24 |url-status=dead }}{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=u8aSN5GSxZIC&pg=PA58 |title=On My Honor: Boy Scouts and the Making of American Youth |first= Jay |last=Mechling |date= 2004 |pages=58 | publisher=University of Chicago Press |isbn=9780226517056 }} These campfire versions are occasionally accompanied by interactive movements,{{cite web

|url=http://usscouts.org/songs/songbk1b.asp

|title=Songs - Campfire Sing-a-longs

|quote=right leg, left leg, stand up, sit down}} such as sitting down or standing up every time a word that begins with the letter "b" is sung. Two examples are given below, the first may be sung as additional verses or variations for the song, the second a song titled "Oh God, How the Money Rolls In" sung to the tune of "My Bonnie":{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kZ-zyrTKTJQC&pg=PA188 |title=Both Sides of the Border: A Scattering of Texas Folklore|date=2004 |pages=187–188 |first1=Francis Edward |last1=Abernethy|first2=Kenneth L. |last2=Untiedt| publisher=University of North Texas Press |isbn=9781574411843 }}{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=W8PvCRbEKLYC&pg=PA107 |title=The Erotic Muse|date=1999 |page=107|first= Ed |last=Cray| publisher=University of Illinois Press |isbn=978-0252067891 }}

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;My Bonnie (variations)

Last night as I lay on my pillow,

Last night as I lay on my bed,

I stuck my feet out of the window,

In the morning the neighbors were dead.

Bring back, bring back, oh bring back my neighbor to me, to me

Bring back, bring back, oh bring back my neighbor to me

My Bonnie leaned over the gas tank,

The height of its contents to see,

I lighted a match to assist her,

O Bring back my Bonnie to me.

Bring back, bring back, oh bring back my Bonnie to me, to me

Bring back, bring back, oh bring back my Bonnie to me.

My breakfast lies over the ocean,

My luncheon lies over the rail.

My supper lies in a commotion.

Won't somebody bring me a pail?

Please bring, please bring, oh please bring a pail to me, to me.

Please bring, please bring, oh please bring a pail to me.

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; My God, How The Money Rolls In{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NZLIDgAAQBAJ&pg=PA31 |title=Folksinger's Wordbook |date= 1973|page=31 |isbn=9781783234608 |publisher=Oak Publications }}

My mother makes beer in the bathtub,

My father makes synthetic gin,

My sister makes fudge for a quarter,

My God, how the money rolls in.

[chorus]

Rolls in, rolls in, my God, how the money rolls in, rolls in,

Rolls in, rolls in, my God, how the money rolls in.

My mother, she drowned in the bathtub,

My father, he died from his gin,

My sister, she choked on her chocolate,

My God, what a jam I am in.

[Repeat chorus]

I tried making beer in the bathtub,

I tried making synthetic gin,

I tried making fudge for a living,

Now look at the shape that I'm in.

[Repeat chorus]

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Another variant popular in the Scouting movement goes under titles such as "My Father's a Lavatory Cleaner", "Shine Your Buttons with Brasso", and "Sweet Violets".{{cite web |url=https://www.barnetscouts.com/wp-content/uploads/75-Camp-Fire-Songs.pdf |title=75 Camp Fire Songs |website=barnetscouts.com |access-date=1 January 2023}}{{cite web |url=https://www.edgwarescouts.org.uk/song-and-chant-lyrics/my-fathers-a-lavatory-cleaner/ |title=My Father's a Lavatory Cleaner |website=edgwarescouts.org.uk}}{{cite web |url=https://mudcat.org/kids/@displaysong.cfm?SongID=5300&SongID=5300 |title=Shine Your Buttons with Brasso |website=Mudcat Cafe |access-date=1 January 2023}} Its history is unknown, but the references to the cleaning material Brasso, its price of three ha'pence (three halfpennies), and its availability from Woolworths, suggest a possible origin in English music hall, or among British or ANZAC troops, in the early 20th century. It is Roud folk song index no. 10232.{{cite web |url=https://www.vwml.org/roudnumber/10232 |title=Phyllis Quat She Died in the Springtime |website=Vaughan Williams Memorial Library |access-date=1 January 2023}}

{{Infobox song

| name = My Bonnie

| image = My Bonnie by Tony Sheridan and the Beatles UK vinyl side A.png

| caption = Side A of the UK single

| type = single

| artist = Tony Sheridan and the Beatles or
the Beatles with Tony Sheridan

| album = My Bonnie

| B-side = The Saints (When the Saints Go Marching In)

| released = 23 October 1961 (Germany)
5 January 1962 (UK)
27 January 1964 (US)

| recorded = 22 June 1961

| venue = Friedrich-Ebert-Halle, Hamburg, Germany

| genre = Rock and roll

| length = 2:42

| label = Polydor (Germany)

| writer = Traditional, arranged by Tony Sheridan

| producer = Bert Kaempfert

| chronology = Tony Sheridan and the Beat Brothers

| next_title = Sweet Georgia Brown

| next_year = 1964

| misc = {{Extra chronology

| artist = The Beatles UK

| type = single

| title = My Bonnie

| year = 1962

| next_title = Love Me Do

| next_year = 1962

}}

{{Extra chronology

| artist = The Beatles US

| type = single

| prev_title = I Want to Hold Your Hand

| prev_year = 1963

| title = My Bonnie

| year = 1964

| next_title = Twist and Shout

| next_year = 1964

}}

{{External music video|type = single | header = Audio video |{{YouTube|8KNedjsgnwY |"My Bonnie" }}}}

}}

A rock n' roll arrangement of the song was recorded by Tony Sheridan and the Beatles.{{cite web|url=https://www.beatlesbible.com/songs/my-bonnie/|title=My Bonnie|first=Joe|last=Gooden|date=16 March 2008|accessdate=25 June 2021}} It was titled "My Bonnie",{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=660aY6RF3tg |title=My Bonnie |website=YouTube|date=29 September 2015 }} and subtitled "Mein Herz ist bei dir nur"{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ACJ-ARLEnU |title=My Bonnie (Mein Herz ist Bei Dir Nur)|website=YouTube|date=23 September 2014 }} ("My Heart is with You Only") in its German language version.{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1aBfMee_xUEC&pg=PT408|title=The Beatles - All These Years |first= Mark |last=Lewisohn |date=2013|isbn=9781405527309| publisher=Little, Brown Book Group }} The band was credited as the Beat Brothers in its original release; their name was changed because the German producer wanted to avoid association with the similar sounding German slang "pidels" (pronounced "peedles" meaning "little willies"),{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tofbDgAAQBAJ&pg=PT9 |title=A Beatles Miscellany |first= John |last= Van der Kiste |date=2014 | publisher=Fonthill Media }} and the "Beat Brothers" was thought more understandable to the German audience.

Tony Sheridan and the Beatles (with Pete Best on drums) were signed by bandleader Bert Kaempfert to Polydor, and they recorded a number of songs including "My Bonnie" in their first recording session on 22 June 1961 at the Friedrich-Ebert-Halle in Hamburg, West Germany. These songs were the Beatles' first commercial recordings. Kaempfert produced the song, assisted by sound engineer Karl Hinze. "My Bonnie" was said to have been chosen because it was a song known to the Germans.

Tony Sheridan sang lead on the song, starting with a slow Elvis Presley style introduction. The Beatles were the backing band; Paul McCartney provided vocal harmony and shouts, Best on drums provided a constant "2-and, 4" beat on the faster part of the song, and George Harrison on guitar notably on the bridge.{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=S5UbIgKdAS4C&pg=PA62|title=Mods, rockers, and the music of the British invasion |first=James E. |last=Perone |date= 2009|pages=61–63|isbn=9780275998608| publisher=Praeger Publishers }} This is how Sheridan describes his arrangement of the song: "The [slow] introduction was in A, now we did a very innovative thing, we went in to C to Rock and roll."{{Cite web|url=https://youtube.com/watch?v=QvuwVov3TaA|title=Tony Sheridan talks about Hamburg and The Beatles - July 2003|website=YouTube|date=19 February 2013 }} He described their preparation for their recording session of My Bonnie, in these words:

{{quote|"Paul, I knew he was a natural bass player, so I said to Paul, "Can you do the second part of my solo? Can you play just C and nothing else? The low C? You just need to stay on the same note". And he did. If you listen to My Bonnie, in the second part of the solo, you will hear Paul doing exactly that, which shows he was a great bass player. He still is."{{Cite web |url=https://www.rte.ie/radio/doconone/771586-are-you-tony-sheridan |title=RTÉ Documentary on One - Are You Tony Sheridan? - The story of a self-confessed 'Irish Vagabond', with Martin Duffy, 2010-07-17 |website=Raidió Teilifís Éireann, Ireland's National Public Service Media. Rte.ie|date=29 February 2016 }}}}

• Tony Sheridan – lead vocals, guitar solo
• John Lennon – rhythm guitar, backing vocals
• Paul McCartney – bass, backing vocals
• George Harrison – lead guitar, backing vocals
• Pete Best – drums

"My Bonnie" was first released as a single in October 1961 in West Germany, with "The Saints (When the Saints Go Marching In)" its B-side. According to McCartney in 1962, it reached top 5 on the German hit parade.{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YbQAUhdlR9gC&pg=PT274|title=The Beatles: The Music And The Myth|first1= Patrick|last1= Humphries|first2= Peter |last2=Dogget |date= 2010|pages=61–63|isbn=9780857123619| publisher=Omnibus Press }}{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pwQhAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA33|title=The Cambridge Companion to the Beatles|date=2009|first= |page=33|isbn=9781139828062| publisher=Cambridge University Press }}

The single is said to have been instrumental in bringing the Beatles to the attention of Brian Epstein (even though Epstein was likely to have been aware of the group before then), when a customer requested the record at his music store NEMS in Liverpool. Epstein subsequently went to see the Beatles at The Cavern Club and became their manager.{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xWRyBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA654 |title=The Beatles Encyclopedia: Everything Fab Four |first= Kenneth |last=Womack |date=2014 |pages= 654–655 | publisher=ABC-CLIO |isbn=9780313391729 }} Brian Epstein placed a large order of the single for NEMS, which persuaded the German label to release the single on 5 January 1962 in the UK, this time credited to Tony Sheridan and the Beatles.{{cite book | author=Lewisohn, Mark|author-link=Mark Lewisohn| title=The Beatles: All These Years, Vol. 1: Tune In| publisher=Crown Archetype| year=2013 |pages=502, 521 | isbn=978-1-4000-8305-3}} However, it did not chart in the UK in 1962, but charted in 1963 at No. 48 after the Beatles became popular. In July 1963, Polydor released "My Bonnie" as an EP in the UK in order to capitalise on the success of the Beatles.{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xWRyBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA656 |title=The Beatles Encyclopedia: Everything Fab Four |first= Kenneth |last=Womack |date=2014 |page= 656 | publisher=ABC-CLIO |isbn=9780313391729 }} The single was also released in the United States during the Beatlemania, this time around with the Beatles credited as the lead artist, and it reached the No. 26 spot on the Billboard chart.{{cite web|url=https://www.beatlesbible.com/1964/01/27/us-single-my-bonnie-the-saints/|title=US single release: My Bonnie/The Saints|first=Joe|last=Gooden|date=27 January 1964|accessdate=25 June 2021}}

John Lennon later expressed his dislike for the Beatles' recording with Sheridan, as he said: "It's just Tony Sheridan singing, with us banging in the background. It's terrible. It could be anybody." George Harrison, however, was enthusiastic about the initial release of their recording, and said that he "didn't stop playing it for days". For a short while the band performed the song in shows, with Lennon taking over on lead vocals.{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6bk1AAAAQBAJ&pg=PT120 |title=The Beatles - All These Years - Extended Special Edition: Volume One: Tune In |first= Mark |last=Lewisohn |date=2013 | publisher=Hachette UK |isbn=9781408705452 }}

Both "My Bonnie" and "The Saints" were included on Sheridan's My Bonnie album. Sheridan's first version of "Sweet Georgia Brown" was also recorded with the Beatles and issued on an E.P. in 1962. This was the third and last song with the Beatles to be credited to the Beat Brothers.{{cite web|url=https://www.beatlesbible.com/songs/sweet-georgia-brown/|title=Sweet Georgia Brown|first=Joe|last=Gooden|date=12 October 2017|accessdate=28 September 2021}} When the Beatles gained fame, all eight recordings made by the Beatles in Hamburg in 1961 and 1962 were compiled on the German album The Beatles' First! in 1964 and issued elsewhere in subsequent years. "My Bonnie", along with "Ain't She Sweet" and "Cry for a Shadow", was placed on Anthology 1 in 1995.{{cite web|url=https://www.beatlesbible.com/albums/anthology-1/|title=Anthology 1|first=Joe|last=Gooden|date=14 March 2008|accessdate=26 June 2021}}

• Duane Eddy and the Rebels recorded an instrumental version titled "Bonnie Come Back",{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykbS-tzMEyk |title=Bonnie Came Back - Duane Eddy|website=YouTube|date=21 November 2014 }} which reached No. 26 on the Billboard Hot 100,{{cite magazine |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4x4EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA48 |title=The Billboard Hot 100|magazine=Billboard |date=January 18, 1960 }} No. 15 in Canada,{{cite web|url=http://chumtribute.com/60-01-25-chart.jpg| title=CHUM Hit Parade - January 25, 1960}} and No. 12 on the UK chart in 1960.{{cite web |url= https://www.officialcharts.com/artist/7214/duane-eddy/ |title=Duane Eddy |work=The Official Charts Company}}
• Ray Charles released a R&B version titled "My Bonnie" {{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8DdXBZgk-Q |title=My Bonnie - Ray Charles|website=YouTube|date=5 November 2014 }} in 1958.{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UVs-DwAAQBAJ&pg=PT29 |title=The Beatles: Music Roots |publisher= Wise Publications |date= 2011 |isbn=9781783239818 }} It was included in his 1959 album What’d I Say.{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=H_9vida92IMC&pg=PA279 |title=The Cambridge Companion to Recorded Music|date=2009|publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=9780521865821 }}
• Pete Seeger sang a song titled "My Children Are Seven in Number" {{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzuP1GFy0Jg |title=My Children Are Seven in Number - Pete Seeger|website=YouTube|date=8 June 2018 }} based on the tune of "My Bonnie" to promote the labour movement and show solidarity with striking workers.{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=L0OKDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT3449 |title=The SAGE International Encyclopedia of Music and Culture|date= 2019|editor=Janet Sturman| publisher=SAGE Publications |isbn=9781506353371 }} The song was included in his 1956 album American Industrial Ballads as well as other compilations.{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ksNq8l179b0C&pg=PA45 |title=A Pete Seeger Discography: Seventy Years of Recordings|first= David |last=King Dunaway |date= 2011| publisher=Scarecrow Press |isbn=9780810877191 |pages=24, 45, 193 }}
• "My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean" was recorded by the American quintet Bounding Main and released on their 2011 album Kraken Up.{{Cite web |last=My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean |title=Bounding Main |url=https://boundingmain.com/music/cds/kraken-up/ |access-date=2024-02-29 |website=Bounding Main|date=28 September 2019 }}

• The Fleischer brothers filmed this song in DeForest Phonofilm, part of their Song Car-Tunes series, released 15 September 1925, and notable as the first film to use the "follow the bouncing ball" technique.{{cite book | title = Masters of Animation | author = John Grant | publisher = Watson–Guptill | isbn = 0-8230-3041-5 | year = 2001 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=fILQxHvuEHYC&q=famous-bouncing-ball&pg=PA82}}{{Citation |last=Fleischer |first=Dave |title=My Bonnie |date=1925-09-15 |type=Animation, Short |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0141630/ |access-date=2024-11-08 |publisher=Out of the Inkwell Films}}
• My Bunny Lies Over The Sea,{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3wDyZ4BrW4 |title=Looney Tunes "My Bunny Lies over the Sea" Opening and Closing |website=YouTube|date=4 February 2020 }} a short Bugs Bunny cartoon film whose title parodies the song, was released by Warner Brothers in 1948.Warner Brothers (1948) {{IMDb title|qid=Q6945135|title=My Bunny Lies Over The Sea}}; Animation, Short, Comedy
• On December 20, 2011, JibJab released a video about the year 2011 in review with a song called "2011, Buh-Bye",{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zls4Ao3GyM |title=JibJab Year in Review "2011, Buh-Bye!"|website=YouTube|date=20 December 2011 }} to the tune of the title song.{{Cite web |url=https://sendables.jibjab.com/originals/2011_buh_bye |title=Funny eCards, Personalized Birthday eCards, and Holiday Cards - JibJab.com |access-date=2011-12-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130121230031/http://www.jibjab.com/originals/2011_buh_bye |archive-date=2013-01-21 |url-status=dead }}
• In 2012 Hollie Steel starred and sang "My Bonnie Lies over the Ocean"[https://www.amazon.com/Children-on-the-Titanic/dp/B007YVUZ9O/ref=sr_shvl_album_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1339992361&sr=301-1 Amazon.com] 10 song 34 minute album from BB5 Records Ltd. available as mp3 download. Retrieved 20 June 2012{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xNQMDlBtNo |title=My Bonnie Lies over the Ocean - Hollie Steel |website=YouTube|date=3 February 2022 }} in the 55 minute musical docudrama, Children on the Titanic[http://childrenonthetitanic.com/index.html website for "Children on the Titanic"] accessed 11 August 2013. available on Amazon Video [https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00IYQR9GK/ Amazon listing for "Children on the Titanic"] accessed 26 December 2014 and on YouTube.{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjYA8QsEVUo |title=Children on the Titanic - Full Movie |website=YouTube}}
• In 1940, refugees aboard the Dunera ship "learned from their British warders" this song's tune and, in response to maltreatment, including to their luggage, they composed and sang "regularly on board the ship": "My luggage went into the ocean, My luggage went into the sea, My luggage was thrown in the ocean, Oh, bring back my luggage to me!"{{cite news

|newspaper=The Jerusalem Post

|url=https://www.jpost.com/Opinion/HMT-Dunera-the-scandal-and-the-salvation-437120

|title=HMT Dunera: the scandal and the salvation

|author=Stephen Gabriel Rosenberg |date=12 December 2015 |access-date=8 March 2020}}

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