Brigadoon movie - Waitin' For My Dearie lyrics

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FIONA:<br>

Many a lassie as ev'ryone knows'll<br>

Try to be married before twenty-five.<br>

So she'll agree to most any proposal.<br>

All he mus' be is a man, an' alive.<br>

I hold a dream an' there's no compromisin'<br>

I know there's one certain laddie for me.<br>

One day he'll come walkin' o'er the horizon:<br>

But should he not, then an old maid I'll be.<br>

Foolish, ye may say.<br>

Foolish I will stay.<br>

Waitin' for my dearie, an' happy am I<br>

to hold my heart till he comes strollin' by.<br>

When he comes, my dearie, one look an' I'll know<br>

That he's the dearie I've been wantin' so.<br>

Though I'll live forty lives till the day he arrives,<br>

I'll not ever, ever grieve.<br>

For my hopes will be high that he'll come strollin' by;<br>

For ye see, I believe<br>

That there's a laddie weary, and wanderin' free,<br>

Who's waitin' for his dearie:<br>

Me!<br>

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1ST GIRL:<br>

What do ye do while ye're waitin' around<br>

For your lad to come your way?<br>

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FIONA:<br>

Well, when no one is lookin', ye kneel on the ground,<br>

An' ye pray an' pray an' pray!<br>

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2ND GIRL:<br>

But when lassies sit an' have no men,<br>

Oh, how long becomes the night.<br>

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FIONA:<br>

But I fear the night is longer when the lad's no' right.<br>

Waitin' for my dearie is sweeter to me<br>

Than wooin' any laddie on the lea.<br>

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GIRLS:<br>

Dreamin' of your dearie, an' idlin' the day<br>

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FIONA:<br>

That's how I am an' how I'll ever stay.<br>

Though I'll live forty lives till the day he arrives,<br>

I'll not ever, ever grieve.<br>

For my hopes will be high that he'll come strollin' by;<br>

For ye see, I believe<br>

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FIONA AND GIRLS:<br>

That there's a laddie weary, an' wanderin' free,<br>

who's waitin' for his dearie:<br>

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FIONA:<br>

Me!<br>

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