Ye comrades and companions and all ye females dear
To my sad lamentations I pray you lend an ear
For it's once I lo'ed a bonnie lass I lo'ed her as my life
It was my sole intention to make that girl my wife
I said "my dearest Betsy when will you name the time
When you and I'll get married love and hands togther join?
You'll sit in oor wee cottage and you'll neither spin nor sew
While your own kind herted highland lad gaes whistling at the plough"
Oh I courted wi yon bonnie lass for twelve months and a day
Sometimes among the green grass sometimes among the hay
I'll tell them that I lo'ed her weel although she proved untrue
And left me doon by Hatton woods my follies for to rue
But blessings on yon bonnie lass wherever she may be
I wish no evil unto her although she slighted me
I only hope someday that she might say before she dees
O I wish I'd wed that highland lad that sang so sweet to me
Ye comrades and companions and all ye females dear
To my sad lamentations I pray you lend an ear
For it's once I lo'ed a bonnie lass I lo'ed her as my life
It was my sole intention to make that girl my wife
To my sad lamentations I pray you lend an ear
For it's once I lo'ed a bonnie lass I lo'ed her as my life
It was my sole intention to make that girl my wife
I said "my dearest Betsy when will you name the time
When you and I'll get married love and hands togther join?
You'll sit in oor wee cottage and you'll neither spin nor sew
While your own kind herted highland lad gaes whistling at the plough"
Oh I courted wi yon bonnie lass for twelve months and a day
Sometimes among the green grass sometimes among the hay
I'll tell them that I lo'ed her weel although she proved untrue
And left me doon by Hatton woods my follies for to rue
But blessings on yon bonnie lass wherever she may be
I wish no evil unto her although she slighted me
I only hope someday that she might say before she dees
O I wish I'd wed that highland lad that sang so sweet to me
Ye comrades and companions and all ye females dear
To my sad lamentations I pray you lend an ear
For it's once I lo'ed a bonnie lass I lo'ed her as my life
It was my sole intention to make that girl my wife
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