Текст песни: The Bleacher Lassie of Kelvinhaugh + перевод

As I was a-walking one fine summer’s morning

All along by the Broomielaw

O it’s there I met with a fair young maiden

She’d cherry cheeks and she’d skin like snow

Says I, «Fair lassie, why do you wander

Along by the Broomielaw?»

«O indeed, kind sir, I will plainly tell you

I’m a bleacher lassie on Kelvinhaugh.»

«O lassie, lassie if you’ll go with me

I’ll dress you up in fine satins braw.»

«O indeed, kind sir, it’s the truth I’ll tell you

I’ve a lad of my own but he’s far awa.»

«O lassie, lassie, you are hard-hearted

And I wish your fair face I never saw;

For my heart’s aye bleeding, both night and morning

For the bleacher lassie on Kelvinhaugh

«It's seven lang years that I’ve loved my sailor;

And seven long years since he went awa

Aye, and another seven I’ll wait upon him

And I’ll bleach my claes here on Kelvinhaugh.»

«O lassie, lassie, you have proved faithful

And you thought on me while I was awa;

Two hearts will surely be rewarded

We’ll part no more here on Kelvinhaugh.»

And now this couple, they have gotten married

And they keep an ale-house atween them twa

And the sailor laddies, they all go drinking

At the bleacher lassie’s on Kelvinhaugh

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