The Bonny Lassie’s Answer

The Bonny Lassie’s Answer

Farewell to Glasgow,
Likewise to Lanarkshire,
And farewell my dearest parents,
For I’ll ne’er see ye mair:
For the want of pocket money,
And for the want of cash,
Makes mony a bonny laddie
To leave his bonny lass.

CHORUS.

For I am forced to go, love,
Where no one shall be know,
But the bonny lassie’s answer
Was aye no, no.

For the king is wanting men,
And I for one must go,
And it’s for my life, love,
I dar not answer no,
O! stay at home my bonny lad,
And dinna gang afar,
For little do you know
The dangers of the war.
For I am bound, &c.
It’s I’ll cut off my yellow hair,
And go along with thee,
And be your faithful comrade
In some foreign country,
Stay at home, my bonny lass,
And dinna gang wi’ me,
For little, little do you know
Of the dangers of the sea.
For I am bound, &c.
He lifted up her lily hand,
And laid it on his heart,
And said, my bonny lassie,
From you I canna part;
The fervent love I have for you,
Is constant, true and kind,
You’re always present to my view,
And never from my mind.
But I am forced, &c.
Farewell to Cascon’s sunny braes,
Where oft-time I hae been,
And farewell to the banks of Clyde,
And bonny Glasgow green,
Farewell my loving comrades,
I won my heart is sair,
Farewell for aye, my bonny Jean,
For I’ll ne’er see ye mair.
For I am forced, &c.

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