The Lass of Glenshee/The Answer to the Blue Bonnets

by Anonymous

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Answer to the Blue Bonnets.

Farewell to all sorrows, with joy now I'll sing
Since Charles has returned as free as a King,
It's long seven years since he bade me adiew,
But now he has returned with his bonnet so blue.

He cried out, Be constant, that day we did part;
That word was so heavy it sunk in my heart:
But like a roving turtle, the campaign stood thro',
But now he has returned with his bonnet so blue.

Some said he was wounded, some said he was slain,
Which made me relent as he stood on the plain,
With joy transported my senses all slew
When I saw my dear charmer and's bonnet so blue.

I fainted with joy, in his arms I did fall,
My cheeks they did willow, my lips turn'd pale;
Then he cried out, Dear lassie thy senses renew,
For it's I thy dear Charles and his bonnet so blue.

For the war is now over, and alive I remain,
Unto thy sweet arms I am safe back again;
The cannons did thunder, balls like arrows they flew,
No danger came over me, and my bonnet so blue.

When with danger surrounded, for death I refign'd,
The thoughts of my jewel was still my mind;
In the midst of hot battles my grief was for you,
When I thought to lie there with my bonnet so blue.

In sorrow I left thee, why now dost thou
When alive I'm preserved. and now to thee faint.
I am chaste, true, and loyal, thy joys to renew,
I'll still wear my plaid and my bonnet so blue.

It's true, my dear lassie, our dangers were great,
We fought for our King, our country & state,
Por to keep our plaids, because they are new,
That the Scotch may for ever wear bonnets so blue.

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