Bess the Gawkie

by James Muirhead (1742-1808)

Versions of Bess the Gawkie include:

• "The Gawkie", in Captain Ward and the Rain-Bow (n.d.), a chapbook with no printing information
• "Bess the gawkie", in Bess the gawkie (n.d.), a chapbook printed in Edinburgh
• "Bess the gawkie, or Jamie slighted", in Bess the gawkie, or, Jamie slighted (1802), a chapbook printed in Glasgow
• "Bess is but a Gawkie", in Bony Jean of Aberdeen (1815), a chapbook printed in Falkirk
• "Bess the Gawkie", in The roving batchelor (1816), a chapbook printed in Falkirk
• "Bess the Gawkie", in Bess the Gawkie (1828), a chapbook printed in Glasgow
• "Bess the Gawkie", in The Book of Scottish Song (1843), edited by Alexander Whitelaw