Its gossamer fineness I'll sing to you;

For a delicate fabric in sooth it was,

All trimmed and finified off with gauze.

My bonnet of blue, my bonnet of blue,

How well I remember thy azure hue!

To church I wore it, one pleasant day,

Bedecked in ribbons of fanciful ray;

And all the while I sat on my seat

I thought of naught save my bonnet so neat.

My bonnet of blue, my bonnet of blue,