"The Bride is a Bonnie Thing", also known as "The Bride's a Bonny Thing" or "The Bride has a Bonny Thing" or "The Lads of this Town" is an Scottish and Shetland march or jig in A mixolydian. It is played in AEae or standard fiddle tuning. The parts are played AABB (Bremner, Brody, Cooke) or AAB (Gow). It is a Scottish tune played on the Shetland Island of Unst as a march; it is a variation of the tune of the same name printed in early Scottish collections. John Stickle played the tune in the key of G; Tom Anderson in A (AEae). It was the traditionally played to welcome the bride into the ben (best) room after the wedding and thus has had some renewed currency in modern times as a wedding processional among traditional enthusiasts. The piece appears in James Oswald's collection, but Glen finds it first printed by Robert Bremner in his 1757 Scots Reels. That volume was issued the same year that London publishers Charles and Samuel Thompson printed the tune in their Compleat Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, vol. 1 (1757), under the somewhat risqué title "The Bride has a Bonnie Thing". This tune may be the ancestor of the Shetland tune "Da Bride's a Bonnie Ting". James Oswald again printed the tune a few years later in his Caledonian Pocket Companion (Book VIII, p. 21, London, 1760) with the same title the Thompson's employed (which appears to have been the original one). A Highland bagpipe version can be found in Glasgow piper, pipe teacher and pipe-maker William Gunn's Caledonian Repository of Music (1848) as "The Lads of this Town". It was printed in Anderson & Swing's Haand Me Doon da Fiddle (1979), Bremner's Scots Reels (c. 1757), Carlin's The Gow Collection (1986), Cooke's The Fiddle Tradition of the Shetland Isles (1986), Gow's Complete Repository, Part 3 (1806) (as "The Bride has a Bonny Thing"), Thompson's Compleat Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, vol. 1 (1757). It was recorded by Tom Anderson and Aly Bain on The Silver Bow (1993) and The Boys of the Lough on The Boys of the Lough (1973).