Trad. arr. Cooper / Jones / Lax / Prosser / Telfer
Complete Music Ltd 1990
First released on: Freedom and Rain, 1990
(COOK CD 031)
there lived a lady in Scotland
o my love, o my love
there lived a lady in Scotland
o my love so early
there lived a lady in Scotland she's fallen in love with an Englishman bonnie Susie Clelland's to be married in Dundee
the father to the daughter came saying will you forsake that Englishman? I will not that man forsake though you should burn me at the stake where can I get a fine young boy to carry the tidings to my joy up and spoke a fine young boy I'll carry the tidings to your joy give to him this little pen-knife tell him to get him another wife give to him this fine gold ring tell him I'm going to my burning her father dragged her to the stake her mother there the fire did make there lived a lady in Scotland
o my love, o my love
there lived a lady in Scotland
o my love so early
there lived a lady in Scotland she's fallen in love with an Englishman bonnie Susie Clelland's to be buried in Dundee