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My heart it said nay, I look'd for Jamie back; But the wind it blew high, and the ship it was a wreck, The ship it was a wreck, why didna Jamie die? And why did I live to say waes me?

Auld Robin argued sair; tho' my mither didna speak, She look'd in my face till my heart was like to break; So they gie'd him my hand, though my heart was in the sea, Now auld Robin Gray is a gudeman to me.

I hadna been a wife a week but only four, When sitting sae mournfully ae day at the door, I saw my Jamie's wrath, for I cou'dna think it he, Till he said, I'm come back for to marry thee.

O sair did we greet, and muckle did we say; We took but ae kiss, and we tore ourselves away. I wish I were dead; but I'm no like to die, And why do I live to say waes me?

I gang like a ghaist, and carena to spin; I darena think on Jamie, for that would be a sin; But I'll do my best a gudewife to be, For auld Robin Gray is kind unto me.

For lack of gold she's left me, Oh! And of a' that's dear bereft me Oh!