Blue Bells of Scotland
Blue Bells of Scotland (properly ‘Bell’, not ‘Bells’). This song, of unknown origin, first appears at the end of the 18th or beginning of the 19th cent., sung by the London actress, Mrs Jordan (an Irishwoman), at Drury Lane Th.
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