To the high Highland to gae?"

Out spak Lizzie's own mother,

A good old lady was she,

"If ye speak sic a word to my daughter,

I'll gar hang ye high."

"Keep weel your daughter frae me, madam;

Keep weel your daughter frae me;

I care as little for your daughter,

As ye can care for me."

The road grew wetty and dubby;