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T 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,