Aye when I mind on ‘s bonny yellow hair,

I aye hae cause to mourn.

1

There was a bonny, a well-fared may,

In the fauld milking her kye,

When by came a troop of merry gentlemen,

And sae merrily they rode by.

O the broom, etc.

2

The maid she sang till the hills they rang,