The Book of Scottish Song/Highland Minstrel Boy
Highland Minstrel Boy.
[Written by Harry Stoe Van Dyk, author of a volume of poems published a dozen years ago, entitled, "The Coronal." Bet to music by John Barnett.]
I ha'e wander'd mony a night in June,
Along the banks of Clyde,
Beneath a bright and bonnie moon,
Wi' Mary at my side:
A summer w.is she to mine e'e,
And to my heart a joy,
And weel she loo'd to roam wi' me,
Her Highland minstrel boy.
Oh, her presence could on ev'ry star
New brilliancy confer,
And I thought the flow'rs were sweeter far,
When they were seen with her:
Her brow was calm as sleeping sea,
Her glance was full o' joy,
And oh, her heart was true to me,
Her Highland minstrel boy.
I ha'e play'd to ladies fair and gay,
In mony a southron hall;
But there was one far far away,
A world above them all.
And now, though weary years have fled,
I think wi' mournful joy,
Upon the time when Mary wed
Her Highland minstrel boy.