VII ‘And I will build a bonny ship, And set her on the sea, And ye sal gae and seek your love, Your ain love Gregory.
VI Up then spak her father dear, A wafu’ man was he; ‘And I will build a bonny ship, And set her on the sea.
V ‘And wha will build a bonny ship, And set it on the sea?
There shall no man go to my ship Till I say mass and dine, And take my leave of my lady; Go to my bonny ship syne.
The father in #D# even furnishes his daughter with a bonny ship, to go to her true-love.
They had na sailed a day, a day, A day but scarsely five, Till Skipper Patrick's bonny ship Began to crack and rive.
Yesterday, about this same time, My bonny ship came to land; I wish she'd sunken in the sea, And never seen the strand!
O she has built a bonny ship, And she has set it in the sea, And she has built a bonny ship, It's all for to tak her a long journie.
O then she built a bonny ship, And she has set it on the main, And she has built a bonny ship, It's for to tak Lord Beichan hame.
And wha will build a bonny ship, And set it on the sea?
Up then spak her father dear, A wafu' man was he; 'And I will build a bonny ship, And set her on the sea.
And I will build a bonny ship, And set her on the sea, And ye sal gae and seek your love, Your ain love Gregory.
My luve he built a bonny ship, And set her to the main, Wi' twenty-four brave mariners To sail her out and hame.
Lord Wearie got a bonny ship, To sail the saut sea faem; Bade his lady weel the castle keep, Ay till he should come hame.
O gin I had a bonny ship, And men to sail wi' me, It's I wad gang to my true love, Sin he winna come to me!
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