Ocean View, Delaware bypassed the area where Ocean View now lies because of the poor quality of its sandy, salty soil and the salt air that blew in from the Atlantic Ocean; they preferred to settle a few miles farther inland, where the land was higher and drier and the soil richer. Would-be settlers also faced a legal complication in obtaining land in what is now Ocean View, because Lord Baltimore claimed the area as part of his Maryland colony, while William Penn asserted that the area belonged to the Delaware Colony; settlers opted to look elsewhere for land to which they could
My Bonnie Lies over the Ocean My Bonnie lies over the ocean My Bonnie lies over the sea My Bonnie lies over the ocean Oh, bring back my Bonnie to me... Bring back, bring back Oh, bring back my Bonnie to me, to me Bring back, bring back Oh, bring back my Bonnie to me Bring back, bring back Oh, bring back my Bonnie to me, to me Bring back, bring back Oh, bring back my Bonnie to me </poem> There are numerous variations and parodies of the song. Many of these are a result of the song being sung often to children and being a