Oh! where, and oh where does your bonny lassie dwell?

Oh! where, and oh where does your bonny lassie dwell?

She lives in canny Gateshead, at the sign of the Blue Bell:

And it’s oh! in my heart, but I love my lassie well.

And what’s best compar’d to the mind of your true love?

And what’s best compar’d to the mind of your true love?

The meekness of a lamb, and th’ innocence of the dove;

These are the true emblems of the mind of her I love.

In what, and in what does your bonny lass excell?

In what, and in what does your bonny lass excell?

She’s modest as the daisy, sweet as the heather-bell;

And it’s oh! in my heart, I love my lassie well.

And what wad ye dee to please the maid you love?

And what wad ye dee to please the maid you love?

I’d be a saikless wanderer, and through the wide world rov

Till death clos’d my eyes—to please the maid I love.