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Francis Bennoch

born 1812; living 1855–57


Francis Bennoch (born 1812; living 1855–57) is one of the Scottish song-writers whose lives Charles Rogers sketched in The Modern Scottish Minstrel (six volumes, Edinburgh: Adam & Charles Black, 1855–57).

This archive holds 15 songs printed under this poet's name in volume 5 of the anthology, in Rogers's spelling. Dates are those given in Rogers's memoir, which is the only source used here.

  1. Truth and Honour
  2. Our Ship
  3. Auld Peter Macgowan
  4. The Flower of Keir
  5. Constancy
  6. My Bonnie Wee Wifie
  7. The Bonnie Bird
  8. Come When the Dawn
  9. Good-morrow
  10. Oh, Wae's My Life
  11. Hey, My Bonnie Wee Lassie
  12. Bessie
  13. Courtship
  14. Together
  15. Florence Nightingale

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