The Book of Scottish Song/Oh ono chri oh

Oh ono chri oh.

[From a collection of Jacobite Melodies, published at Edinburgh in 1823. This lamentation is said to relate to an incident connected with the massacre of the Macdonalds of Glenco, in 1691.]

Oh, was not I a weary wight?
Oh ono chri oh! oh ono chri oh!
Maid, wife, and widow, in one night!
Oh ono chri oh! &c.
When in my soft and yielding arms,
Oh ono chri oh! &c.
When most I thought him free from harms.
Oh ono chri ch! &c.

Even at the dead time of the night,
Oh ono chri oh! &c.
They broke my bower, and slew my knight,
Oh ono chri oh! &c.
With ae lock of his jet black hair,
Oh ono chri oh! &c.
I'll tye my heart for ever mair;
Oh ono chri oh! &c.

Nae sly-tongued youth, or flattering swain,
Oh ono chri oh! &c.
Shall e'er untye this knot again:
Oh ono chri oh! &c.
Thine, still, dear youth, that heart shall be,
Oh ono chri oh! &c.
Nor pant for aught save heaven and thee!
Oh ono chri oh! &c.

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