highland mary

tune—“katherine ogie.”

ye banks, and braes, and streams around

the castle o' montgomery!

green be your woods, and fair your flowers,

your waters never drumlie:

there simmer first unfauld her robes,

and there the langest tarry;

for there i took the last farewell

o' my sweet highland mary.

how sweetly bloom'd the gay, green birk,

how rich the hawthorn's blossom,

as underneath their fragrant shade,

i clasp'd her to my bosom!

the golden hours on angel wings,

flew o'er me and my dearie;

for dear to me, as light and life,