Hazel Whyte
Thou Bonny Wood
Click here to Listen to this song...........
Scottish Songs and Celtic Ballads
Modern
and
Traditional
Folk Music
Thou Bonnie Wood of Craigielea

Chorus

Thou bonnie wood of Craigielee,
Thou bonnie wood of Craigielee,
Near thee I've spent life's early day,
And won my Mary's heart in thee.

The broom, the brier, the birken bush,
Bloom bonnie on thy flow'ry lea;
And a' the sweets that ane can wish,
Frae Natur's hand are strew'd on thee.

Chorus

Far ben thy dark green plantin's shade,
The cushat croodles am'rously;
The mavis down thy bughted glade,
Gars echo ring frae ev'ry tree.

Chorus

When winter blaws in sleety showr's
Frae aff the norlan' hills sae hie,
He lightly skiffs thy bonnie bow'rs,
As laith to harm a flow'r in thee.

Chorus

Tho' fate should drag me south the line,
Or o'er the wide Atlantic sea,
The happy hours I'll never mind,
That in youth ha'e spent in thee.

Chorus