A Book of Nursery Songs and Rhymes/The Bonnie Pit Laddie
LXXI. THE BONNIE PIT LADDIE
The bonnie pit laddie, the canny pit laddie,
The bonnie pit laddie for me, O!
He sits in a hole as black as a coal,
And brings the white siller to me, O!
The bonnie pit laddie, the canny pit laddie,
The bonnie pit laddie for me, O!
He sits in his cricket, and hews in his jacket,
And brings the white siller to me, O!
My bonnie keel laddie, my canny keel laddie ,
The bonnie keel laddie for me, O!
He sits in his keel as black as the deil,
And brings the white siller to me, O!