| Now I met a Bonnie lassie coming down the Cairnie Brae,
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| And I thought that I would follow her and see what was her way.
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| She was awful neat and awful sweet and needless that I say,
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| She stole away my heart in the morning.
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| Oh, Kate!
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| From Arran’s lovely isle, won’t you cuddle close my lass and give a lad a smile.
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| I’m a Scotsman and I’m proud of it but och I’d walk a mile,
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| Just to get a glimpse of you in the morning.
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| Now her mother was a Lafferty and came from Donegal, and her father was a
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| sailor man from anywhere at all.
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| But it only goes to show me lads, the world is very small, or I never would
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| have met her in the morning.
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| Oh, Kate!
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| From Arran’s lovely isle, won’t you cuddle close my lass and give a lad a smile.
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| I’m a Scotsman and I’m proud of it but och I’d walk a mile,
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| Just to get a glimpse of you in the morning.
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| She has said I can come calling if I really have a mind, with a careless
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| invitation of her teasing woman kind,
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| She would find a way to get me lads, of thieving I was blamed,
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| for I followed her myself in the morning.
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| Oh, Kate!
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| From Arran’s lovely isle, won’t you cuddle close my lass and give a lad a smile.
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| I’m a Scotsman and I’m proud of it but och I’d walk a mile,
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| Just to get a glimpse of you in the morning.
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| There will be wedding bells a ringing lads, if I can get my way,
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| And the shamrock and the thistle be united in a day,
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| In a cottage that I call my own, the darling girl will stay,
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| And I’ll have her by my side every morning.
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| Oh, Kate!
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| From Arran’s lovely isle, won’t you cuddle close my lass and give a lad a smile.
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| I’m a Scotsman and I’m proud of it but och I’d walk a mile,
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| Just to get a glimpse of you in the morning.
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| Just to get a glimpse of you in the morning! |