The bawdy version of 'John Anderson My Jo' is a traditional folk song. Numerous versions of this song were already in circulation in the early to mid-eighteenth century. The version of the bawdy ...

True to form, John Anderson was in the studio writing and recording a batch of new songs when he got the phone call telling ...

Robert Burns's 'John Anderson My Jo' is a polite adaptation of the traditional bawdy song of the same name. The poet adapted the song in 1790 for inclusion in James Johnson's Scots Musical Museum.