Love Songs (1825-1826)/By moonlight on the green

BY MOONLIGHT ON THE GREEN.

By moonlight on the green,
⁠Where lads and lasses stray,
How sweet the blossom'd bean?
⁠How sweet the new made hay?
But not to me so sweet,
⁠The blossoms on the thorn,
As when my lad I meet,
⁠More fresh than May day morn.

chorus.

⁠Give me the lad so blythe and gay
⁠Give me the tartan plaidie;
⁠For, spite of all the wise can say,
⁠I'll wed my highland laddie.
⁠My bonny highland laddie,
⁠My bonny highland laddie,
⁠My bonny, bonny, bonny, bonny,
⁠bonny Highland laddie.

His skin is white as snow,
⁠His e'en are bonny blue,
Like rose-bud sweet his mou
⁠When wet wi' morning dew.
Young Will is rich and great,
⁠And fain wou'd ca' me his;
But what is pride or state,
⁠Without love's smilling bliss
⁠⁠Give me the lad, &c.

When first he talk'd of love,
⁠He look'd sae blithe and gay,
His flame I did approve,
⁠And cou'd na say him nay.
Then to the kirk I'll haste,
⁠There prove my love and truth;
Reward a love sae chaste,
⁠And wed the constant Youth,
⁠Give me the lad, &c.

FINIS.