(The Maid O’ Dundee)
A popular song from 1902
Words and music by J. L. Gilbert
Revised by H. L. Heartz
The sheet music:
Lyrics
A Highland laddie there lived o’er the way
A laddie both noble and gallant and gay
Who loved a lassie as noble as he
A bonnie, sweet lassie, the maid o’ Dundee
This lassie had lands, but the laddie had nane
And yet to her it was all the same
For dearly she loved him, and said she knew
This laddie, dear laddie, was gude and true
Chorus:
Ere years or even months had fled
This laddie and lassie were happily wed
Nae better wifey e’er lived on the lea
Than bonnie, sweet Bessie, the maid o’ Dundee
A happier hame nae mon ever had
Than this which held twa hearts sae glad
And ne’er did Bessie have cause to rue
Her wedding this laddie, sae gude and true
Chorus:
But sorrow came to her heart one day
And her dear laddie was taken away
Then, oh, how sad and lone was she
Poor bonnie, sweet Bessie, the maid o’ Dundee
And when in the ground her darlin’ they laid
Her heart then broke, and she fervently prayed
“Oh, God in heaven let me go, too
And be wi’ my laddie, sae gude and true”