It is a conversation between Napoleon's son (Napoleon II, 1811-1832, named King of Rome by his father upon birth) and his mother (Marie Louise, Duchess of Parma, Napoleon's second wife, whom he married after divorcing Josephine).
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The earliest known version of the tune is in William Christie's "Tradition Ballad Airs" (1881), but there is another tune, of Irish origin.
Guns N' Roses | Wars of the Roses | The Stone Roses | The Brady Bunch | Fontenay-aux-Roses | The Wild Bunch | Bread and Roses | Wild Bunch | Time to Smell the Roses | The Brady Bunch Hour | the Stone Roses | The Days of Wine and Roses | Infrared Roses | Guns n' Roses | Guns 'n Roses | BUNCH | Bonny Hicks | Bonny | Yesterdays (Guns N' Roses song) | Wheelie and the Chopper Bunch | The Garden (Guns N' Roses song) | The Brady Bunch Movie | The Bonny Earl O'Moray | Rugby League War of the Roses | Roses of Picardy | Roses | I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch) | Guns 'N' Roses | Charlotte Bunch | Bunch Creek |
The Chieftains 6: Bonaparte's Retreat, an album featuring a recording of "The Bonny Bunch of Roses"