Darby O'Gill - Glasgow Peggy lyrics

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Darby O'Gill - Glasgow Peggy

First when I came to Glasgow town

The highland hills were all behind me

And the Bonniest lass that ever I spied

She lived in Glasgow, they called her Peggy

Oh highland lads are brisk young lads

Highland lads are young and bonnie

And I’m away to Glasgow town

To steal away the Bonnie Peggy

Her father he’s got word of this

And oh but he was wondrous angry

You can take my oxen and all of my cows

But Ye’ cannot take my Bonnie Peggy

Ah, hold yer tongue, ye silly old man

For I’ve got cows and yowes already

I’ll no’ steal yer oxen or your cows

But I will take your Bonnie Peggy

I said, braw lass, why roam ye there

Why roam ye ‘lone among the heather

She said: My father’s away from home

And I’m herdin’ all his cows together

So I said Braw lass if ye’ll be mine

And ye care to lie in a bed of feathers

In silks and satins you shall lie

Ye’ll be my queen among the heather

She’s mounted on his milk white steed

And he himself on his wee grey naggie

They rode away at the break of the day

He’s run away with his Bonnie Peggy

Well they rode o’er hills and they rode o’er dales

And they rode through the moors and the mosses many

Until they came to a little glen

He’s lighted down with his Bonnie Peggy

Their bed was of the gay green turf

Their blankets of the bracken bonnie

His laid his plaid beneath her head

And she’s lien down with her highland laddie

He’s taken her up

Yon high, high hill

When that the sun was shinin’ clearly

Says all that ye see

Belongs to thee

For lien down with a highland laddie

For all that ye have left behind

Is a wee cot house and a wee kale yardie

Now your the lady of the Isle of Skye

For lien down with a highland laddie

When first I came to Glasgow town

The highland hills were all behind me

And the bonniest lass that ever I spied

She lives in Skye now we called her Peggy