Ladies breastknot/The Highland Laddie

by Allan Ramsay

For other versions of this work, see The Highland Laddie (Ramsay).

THE HIGHLAND LADDIE.

THE lowland lads think they are fine,
but O they're vain and idly gaudy;
How much unlike the graceful mien,
and manly looks of my highland laddie?

chorus.

O my bonny, bonny highland laddie;
My handſome charming highland laddie;
May Heaven ſtill guard and love reward,
The lowland laſs and her highland laddie.

If I were free at will to chuſe,
to be the wealthieſt lowland lady;
I'd take young Donald in his trows,
with bonnet blue and belted plaidie. &c.

The braveſt beau in borrows-town,
in a' his airs, with art made ready,
Compar'd to him, he's but a clown;
he's finer far in his tartan plaidie, &c.

O'er benty hills with him I'll run,
and leave my lawland kin and dady!
Frae winter's cauld and ſummer's ſun,
he'll ſcreen me wi' his tartan plaidie. &c.

A painted room, and ſilken bed,
may pleaſe a lawland laird and lady;
But I can kiſs and be as glad,
behind a buſh in's highland plaidie.
Chorus. O my bonny, bonny. &c.