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.