Kinloch's Ancient Scottish Ballads, p. 123.
| 1 |
There was a rich lord, and he lived in Forfar,
He had a fair lady, and one only dochter. |
| 2 |
O she was fair, O dear, she was bonnie!
A ship's captain courted her to be his honey. |
| 3 |
There cam a ship's captain out owre the sea sailing,
He courted this young thing till he got her wi bairn. |
| 4 |
'Ye'll steal your father's gowd, and your mother's money,
And I'll mak ye a lady in Ireland bonnie.' |
| 5 |
She's stown her father's gowd, and her mother's money,
But she was never a lady in Ireland bonnie.
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| 6 |
'There's fey fowk in our ship, she winna sail for me,
There's fey fowk in our ship, she winna sail for me.' |
| 7 |
They've casten black bullets twice six and forty,
And ae the black bullet fell on bonnie Annie. |
| 8 |
'Ye'll tak me in your arms twa, lo, lift me cannie,
Throw me out owre board, your ain dear Annie.' |
| 9 |
He has tane her in his arms twa, lo, lifted her cannie,
He has laid her on a bed of down, his ain dear Annie. |
| 10 |
'What can a woman do, love, I'll do for ye;'
'Muckle can a woman do, ye canna do for me.' |
| 11 |
'Lay about, steer about, lay our ship cannie,
Do all ye can to save my dear Annie.' |
| 12 |
'I've laid about, steerd about, laid about cannie,
But all I can do, she winna sail for me. |
| 13 |
'Ye'll tak her in your arms twa, lo, lift her cannie,
And throw her out owre board, your ain dear Annie.' |
| 14 |
He has tane her in his arms twa, lo, lifted her cannie,
He has thrown her out owre board, his ain dear Annie. |
| 15 |
As the ship sailed, bonnie Annie she swam,
And she was at Ireland as soon as them. |
| 16 |
He made his love a coffin of the gowd sae yellow,
And buried his bonnie love doun in a sea valley. |
