there was a bonie lass

　　there was a bonie lass, and a bonie, bonie lass,

　　and she lo'ed her bonie laddie dear;

　　till war's loud alarms tore her laddie frae her arms,

　　wi' mony a sigh and tear.

　　over sea, over shore, where the cannons loudly roar,

　　he still was a stranger to fear;

　　and nocht could him quail, or his bosom assail,

　　but the bonie lass he lo'ed sae dear.