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O lady Mary Ann looks o'er the Castle wa', / She saw three bonie boys playing at the ba', / The youngest he was the flower amang them a', / My bonie laddie's young, but he's growin' yet.
O father, O father, an ye think it fit, / We'll send him a year to the college yet, / We'll sew a green ribbon round about his hat, / And that will let them ken he's to marry yet.
Lady Mary Ann was a flower in the dew, / Sweet was its smell and bonie was its hue, / And the longer it blossom'd the sweeter it grew, / For the lily in the bud will be bonier yet.
Young Charlie Cochran was the sprout of an aik, / Bonie and bloomin' and straught was its make, / The sun took delight to shine for its sake, / And it will be the brag o' the forest yet.
The simmer is gane when the leaves they were green, / And the days are awa' that we hae seen, / But far better days I trust will come again; / For my bonie laddie's young, but he's growin' yet.