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Title
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Bonny blue handkerchief under her chin
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Singer
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Sawyer, David [Phoebus]
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Song Lyrics
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Verse 1
'Twas early one morning I chanced for to stray,
I saw a lovely lassie come tripping that way;
With her cheeks red as roses, she gaily did sing,
With a bonny, blue handkerchief tied under her chin.
Verse 2
'Oh! Why is this handkerchief tied under your head?'
'It's our country fashion, kind sir,' she said.
'And the fashion you know sir, I like to be in,
With the bonny, blue handkerchief tied under my chin.'
Verse 3
Then for to kiss her I tried to begin,
'Oh, stop, sir,' she said, 'While I tell you one thing.
He that kisses these lips must show a gold ring,
For the bonny, blue handkerchief tied under my chin.'
Verse 4
With gold and with silver I tried all in vain,
But she smiled in my face with scornful disdain -
'It is not your gold, sir, that one kiss shall win,
From this bonny, blue handkerchief tied under my chin.'
Verse 5
When I saw her so loyal I could not forbear,
I fell in her arms and called her my dear;
'Oh, my dearest jewel! Here is the gold ring,
For the bonny, blue handkerchief tied under your chin.'
