There was a bonie la**, and a bonie, bonie la**,
And she lo'ed her bonie laddie dear;
Till War's loud alarms tore her laddie frae her arms,
Wi' mony a sigh and tear.
Over sea, over shore, where the cannons loudly roar,
He still was a stranger to fear;
And nocht could him quail, or his bosom a**ail,
But the bonie la** he lo'ed sae dear.