O will you go with me and see?”

On we lap, and awa’ we rade,

Till we came to yon bonny green;

We lighted down to bait our horse,

And out there came a lady fine.

Four-and-twenty at her back,

And they were a’ clad out in green;

Though the King of Scotland had been there,

The warst o’ them might hae been his queen.

On we lap, and awa’ we rade,