Bonny Woods o Hatton

Ye comrades and companions, and all ye females dear
To my sad lamentations, I pray you lend an ear
There was once I lo'ed a bonny lass, I lo'ed her as my life,
It was my whole intention to make her my wedded wife.

I courted wi' yon bonny lass a twelve-month and a day,
Sometimes among the green grass, sometimes among the hay 
I courted her the leelang night, and part of the next day,
Till she says, My dearest Sandy lad, it's time you were away.

Now say my dearest Molly when shall we set a time,
When you and I will get married, and hands together join 
Ye'll sit in oor wee cottage, and ye'll neither spin nor sew,
While your ain gude-hearted ploughman lad goes whistlin at the plough.

There's Cadum and there's Cadum Mills and Luther Mills likewise
There's woods and waters many more bring pleasure to my eyes,
But the bonny woods o' Hatton, though they a' grow green in May,
It was there about the lassie lived that stole my heart away.

I'll mind about yon bonny lass when I am far awa,
I'll speak about yon bonny lass to them she never saw,
I'll tell them that I loed her well but to me she proved untrue,
And she left me doon by Hatton Woods my folly for to rue.

But blessings on yon bonny lass, where ever she may be,
I wish no evil unto her although she slighted me,
I only wish that she may say some day before she die,
I wish I had wed yon ploughman lad that sang so sweet to me.