Mount and Go - Archie Fisher, Wendy Grossman, Kathy Westra

My parents married me o’er young

To an old carle both bald and dumb

His love was done and mine new sprung

An' I’ll fly the plains wi' my laddie-o.

Come, bonnie laddie, mount and go

Hey, bonnie laddie, mount and go

Come, bonnie laddie, mount and go

Go, an' I’ll go wi' ye o.

I will leave my good peat stack

Sae wid I my guid kailyard

Sae wid I my auld bald laird

And fly the plains wi' my laddie-o.

The old man he fell fast asleep

An' out o' his arms she quickly did creep

The keys o' the cabin she did keep

And she’s flown the plains wi' her laddie-o

The auld man wakened in the ha'

The sheet was cauld an' she was awa'

An' the wecht o' hersel' o' gold an' a'

An' she’s flown the plains wi' her laddie-o.

Ye’ll gang doon tae yon seashore

An' ye’ll see a ship faur she was before

An' ask at the skipper if she’s been there

Or if any of the sailors saw her-o.

When they were sailing on the sea

She drank their health right merrily

An' she threw the wine glass into the sea

For joy she had won wi' her laddie-o.

When they landed o’er the lea

She was lady o' fifty ploughs an' three

She was lady o' fifty ploughs an' three

An' she dearly loves her laddie-o.