Rantin' Laddie

歌詞

Oft have I played at the cards and dice With my bonnie Rantin' Laddie But now I'm sitting in my father's hall Singing ba to my bastard baby Oh, if I'd been wise as I've been nice And done what my bonnie lad told me I'd have been married a year or more To my bonnie Rantin' Laddie Oh, my father dear, he knows me not My mother she ignores me My friends and relations slight me all And the servants, they quite hate me Is your love a lord or is he a laird Or is he but a caddie That you so oft call on his name Your bonnie Rantin' Laddie If I had a horse at my command As oft times I've had many I'd ride away to the gates of Aboyne To my bonnie Rantin' Laddie Then up and spake a kitchen boy Saying, though I'm but a caddie It's I will run to the Gates of Aboyne With a letter to your Rantin' Laddie And as he ran through Buchanshire And Buchan shone so bonnie It's there he spied the Earl of Aboyne That they call the Rantin' Laddie And when he looked the letter on Oh, but he was sorry They've been cruel and fell unkind To my bonnie Rantin' Lassie Oh, my father dear, he knows me not My mother she ignores me My friends and relations slight me all And the servants, they quite hate me Go get thee out five hundred men And see that they ride so bonny We'll bring the lassie back to Aboyne The bonnie Rantin' Lassie When she was up behind his back Wrapped in her hieland plaidie The birds in the trees sang never so sweet As the bonnie Rantin' Lassie And they rode on through Buchanshire And Buchan shone so bonnie Rejoice, rejoice ye bonnie maids all An see that ye be not sorry If you lay your love on a lowland lad Be sure that he'll betray ye But lay your love on a hieland lad He'll do all that he can to raise ye