20

It fell on a day, on a het simmer day,

She was ca’ing out her father’s kye,

By came a troop o gentlemen,

A’ merrilie riding bye.

21

‘Weel may ye save an see, bonny may!

Weel may ye save and see!

Weel I wat ye be a very bonny may,

But whae’s aught that babe ye are wi?’