Traditional, Adapted by W. S. Messer
“Waitin’ for a Ride”, Darby O’Gill, 1996
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First when I came to Glasgow town - The highland hills were all behind me
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And the bonniest lass that ever I spied
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She lived in Glasgow, they called her Peggy
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Oh highland lads are brisk young lads - Highland lads are young and bonnie
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And I’m away to Glasgow town - To steal away the Bonnie Peggy
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Her father he’s got word of this - And oh but he was wondrous angry
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You can take my oxen and all of my cows - But Ye’ cannot take my Bonnie Peggy
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Ah, hold yer tongue, ye silly old man - For I’ve got cows and yowes a-plenty
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I’ll no’ steal yer oxen or your cows
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But I will take your Bonnie Peggy
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I said, braw lass, why roam ye there - Why roam ye ‘lone among the heather
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She said: My father’s away from home - And I’m herdin’ all his cows together
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So I said braw lass if ye’ll be mine - And ye care to lie in a bed of feathers
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In silks and satins you shall lie
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Ye’ll be my queen among the heather
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She’s mounted on his milk white steed - And he himself on his wee grey naggie
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They rode away at the break of the day
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He’s run away with his Bonnie Peggy
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Well they rode o’er hills and they rode o’er dales
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And they rode through the moors and the mosses many
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Until they came to a little glen - He’s lighted down with his Bonnie Peggy
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Their bed was of the gay green grass - Their blankets of the bracken bonnie
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His laid his plaid beneath her head - And she’s lien down with her highland laddie
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He’s taken her up yon high, high hill - When that the sun was shinin’ clearly
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Says all that ye see belongs to thee - For lien down with a highland laddie
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For all that ye have left behind - Is a wee cot house and a wee kale yardie
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Now you’re the lady of the Isle of Skye
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For lien down with a highland laddie
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When first I came to Glasgow town - The highland hills were all behind me
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And the bonniest lass that ever I spied
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She lives in Skye now we called her Peggy