Highland Mary + 

Will you leave the hills of Scotland? + 

Your childhood’s happy home, + 

To brave the dangers of the deep, + 

In foreign lands to roam⁠— + 

Say, Mary, will you, for my sake + 

Leave yonder joyous cot⁠— + 

Your youthful friends and scenes so dear, + 

To share a soldier’s lot? + 

The battle’s din, my Mary, + 

Has never met thine ear, + 

The woodlands’ songsters melody + 

Is all that thou dost hear. + 

The vivid flash of musketry⁠— + 

The cannon’s thundering roar + 

Must meet thine eye, burst on thine ear + 

Sounds never heard before. + 

And now, fond one, I’ve told you all. + 

And I can say no more⁠— + 

“Will you go to the Indies, my Mary, + 

And leave old Scotia’s shore?” + 