The bird on the bush neer sang sae sweet,

As she sung to her love Geordie.

17

‘First I was mistress o bonny Auchindown,

And I was lady o a’ Carnie,

But now I have come to the bonny Bog o Gight,

The wife o my true-love Geordie.

18

‘If I were in the high Hielans,

I would hear the white kye lowing;