‘Lovely Annie is another of the Scottish songs my mother learned from her aunt Mary Gallagher – the woman known as ‘Mary of the Mountain Streams’. The verse referring to Bedlam I heard before in a selection of London street songs in the possession of one Jim Dooley, a singer of London-Irish extraction. He had quite a number of songs relating to girls crossed in love who ended up in Bedlam and were subjected to dire cruelty and deprivation. The tune again has that haunting quality about it that manifests itself not infrequently in my mother’s songs.’ (The Stone Fiddle LP, Paddy Tunney)