P. 231. 'Bonnie Annie Livieston' in C.K. Sharpe's first
Manuscript collection, p. 24, resembles D and B,
and has as many commonplaces as B, ending with the last
three stanzas of several versions of 'Lord Thomas and Fair Annet'
or of 'Lord Lovel,' I.
| 1 |
Bonny Anny Livieston
Went out to see the play,
By came the laird of Glenlion,
And [he's] taen hir quite away. |
| 2 |
He set hir on a milk-white steed,
Himself upon a gray,
He's teen hir oer the Highland hills,
And taen hir quite away. |
| 3 |
When they came to Glenlion's gate,
The lighted on the green;
There was mony a bonny lad and lass
To welcome the lady hame. |
| 4 |
They led hir through high towers and bowers,
And through the buling-green,
And ay when they spake Erse to hir
The tears blinded hir een. |
| 5 |
Says, The Highlands is no for me, kind sir,
The Highlands is no for me;
If that ye would my favour win,
Take me unto Dundee. |
| 6 |
'Dundee!' he says, 'Dundee, lady!
Dundee you shall never see;
Upon the laird of Glenlion
Soon wadded shall ye be.' |
| 7 |
When bells were rung, and mas was sung,
And all were bound for bed,
And bonny Annie Livieston
By hir bridegroom was laid. |
| 8 |
'It's O gin it were day!' she says,
'It's O gin it were day!
O if that it were day,' she says,
'Nae langer wad I stay.' |
| 9 |
Your horse stands in a good stable,
Eating both corn and hay,
And you are in Glenlion's arms,
Why should ye weary for day?' |
| 10 |
'Glenlion's arms are good enough,
But alais! the 'r no for me;
If that you would my fevour win,
Taike me unto Dundee. |
| 11 |
'Bat fetch me paper, pen and ink,
And candle that I may see,
And I'll go write a long letter
To Geordie in Dundee. |
| 12 |
Where will I get a bonny boy,
That will win hose and shoon,
That will gang to my ain true-luve,
And tell him what is done?' |
| 13 |
Then up then spake a bonny boy,
Near to Glenlion's kin,
Says, Many time I hae gane his erand,
But the lady's I will rin. |
| 14 |
O when he came to broken brigs
He bent his bow and swame,
And when he came to grass growing
Set down his feet and ran. |
| 15 |
And when he came to Dundee gate
Lap clean outoer the wa;
Before the porter was thereat,
The boy was in the haa. |
| 16 |
'What news? what news, bonny boy?
What news hes thou to me?'
'No news, no news,' said bonny boy,
'But a letter unto thee.' |
| 17 |
The first three lines he looked on,
A loud laughter gied he,
But or he wan to the hinder en
The tears blinded his eie. |
| 18 |
'Gae saddle to me the black,' he says,
'Gae saddle to me the broun,
Gae saddle to me the swiftest steed
That eer took man to towen.' |
| 19 |
He burst the black unto the slack,
The browen unto the brae,
But fair fa on the siller-gray
That carried him ay away! |
| 20 |
When he came to Glenlion's yett,
He tirled at the pin,
But before that he wan up the stair
The lady she was gone. |
| 21 |
'O I can kiss thy cheeks, Annie,
O I can kiss thy chin,
O I can kiss thy clay-cold lips,
Though there be no breath within. |
| 22 |
'Deal large at my love's buriell
The short bread and the wine,
And gin the morn at ten o clock
Ye may deal as mukle at mine.' |
| 23 |
The taen was biried in Mary's kirk,
The tither in St. Mary's quire,
And out of the taen there grew a birk,
And the ither a bonny brier. |
| 24 |
And ay they grew, and ay they threw,
Till they did meet aboon,
And a' that ere the same did see
Knew they had true lovers been. |
