Regency Advertisements: A Bonny Young Lad is my Jockey

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This day is published by BUTTON WHITAKER and Co St Paul's Churcb yard A BONNY YOUNG LAD IS MY JOCKEY A much admired Scotch Song sung with universal applause by Mrs BLAND at Vauxhall Gardens Composed by Mr Hook price is 6d 80

This ad appeared in the August 1817 issue of La Belle Assemblée.

I found a website with a tutorial of the tune to hear what it sounds like: A bonny young lad is my Jockey. – piano tutorial (musescore.com)

Not sure if this is the same song, but it has the title in its chorus:

SONG CCCLXXXIV IH LL fing of my lover all night and all day He's ever good natur d and frolic and gay His voice is as fweet as the nightingale's lay And well on his bagpipe my thepherd can play And a bonny young lad is my Jockey of And a bonny young lad is my Jockey m al He fays that he loves me I m witty and fair And praifes my eyes and my lips and my hair Rofe vi let nor lily with me can compare If this be to flatter tis pretty I fwear And a bonny & c He kneel d at my feet and with many a figh He cry d Oh my dear will you never comply If you mean to destroy me why do it I ll die I trembled all over and anfwer d Not 1 And a bonny & c C Around the tall May pole he dances fo neat And fonnets of love the dear boy can repeat He's conftant he's valiant he's wife and difcreet His looks are fo kind and his kiffes fo fweet And a bonny & c At eve when the fun feeks repofe in the weft And May's tuneful choirifts all fkim to their neft When I meet on the green the dear boy I love best My heart is just ready to burft from my breaft And a bonny & c 19 But fee how the meadows are moisten d with dew Come come my dear fhepherd I wait but for you We ll live for each other both conftant and true And tafte the foft raptures no mortal e er knew And a bonny young lad is my Jockey And a bonny young lad is my Jockey

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