Text divider from 'Bonny Annie's Elopement', a chapbook printed in Glasgow in 1803
BONNY ANNIE.
It was on a day in the middle of April,I went to Loughmay the maids to beguile,My dear and my jewel, my honey, said he,Will ye go to the North Highlands with me.
Many broad letters to Annie I did send,The old wife her mother, she did apprehend,From whence comes all these broad letters said she,They come from Drymenus, said Annie to me.
I went to Drymenus my Annie to see,But little I thought what should happen to me,I went to Drymenus so bold was mysel,And she bid me to call at the sign of the bell.
But I stopt at the tree till she came unto me,And I soon made her glad to follow with me;Look up bonny Annie and never look down,A well and I grant you need never frown.
Look always to me with a blythe blinking eye,For I knew she was fond to follow with me,The night it is cold and my clothing is thin,And a far way to go, I'll die or I win.
The night it is cold, and I know your afraid,But I’ll kindly roll you in my braw Highland plaid,Your pitiful pay it makes me for to say,How can I live well on sixpence a day?
There's twopence for sugar, & twopence for tea,And twopence for bisket and all is away.But a captain's commission perhaps may befall,Where you shall get madam from both great & small.
Both ruffels and ribbons, and all shall go free,When once she is in the North Highlands with me;And a broad down bed to my Annie I’ll gi'e,When once she is in the North Highlands with me.
The night it is cold and inclining to frost,Drymenus and Marshal they saddled their horse,They saddled their horse and they rode after me,But we lodg’d in a valley where they could not see.
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