2

‘If I had been wise, and had taen advice,

And dane as my bonny love bade me,

I would hae been married at Martinmass,

And been wi my rantin laddie.

3

‘But I was na wise, I took nae advice,

Did not as my bonny love bade me,

And now I maun sit by mysel i the nook,

And rock my bastard baby.