Bonnie Annie
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Bonnie Annie is Child ballad 24, existing in several varianits.
[edit] Synopsis
Annie, a merchant's daughter, falls in love with a sea captain and goes to sea with him, in some variants while pregnant. Something goes wrong, and they determine that Annie is the cause of it. She makes the captain throw her overboard. They escape, recover her body, and bury her.