The Fate o' Charlie cover

The Highland Widow's Lament Paroles

Barbara Dickson

Album The Fate o' Charlie

Paroles de The Highland Widow's Lament

Oh, I am come to the low countrie
Och on, och on, och rie!
Without a penny in my purse
To buy a meal to me

It was na sae in the Highland hills
Och on, och on, och rie!
Nae woman in the country wide
Sae happy then as me

For then I has a score o' kye
Och on, och on, och rie!
Feeding on yon hills so high
And giving milk to me

And there I had threescore o' yowes
Och on, och on, och rie!
Skipping on yon bonnie knowes
And casting woo' to me

I was the happiest of a' the clan
Sair, sair, may I repine
For Donald was the brawest man
And Donald he was mine

Till Charlie he cam' o'er at last Their waeful' fate what need I tell?
Right to the wrang did yield
My Donald and his country fell
Upon Colloden-field

Och on, Och on, O Donald O!
Och on, och on, och rie!
Nae woman in this whole world wide
Sae wretched now as me