[Verse]

As I roved out on a bright May morning

To view the meadows and flowers gay

Whom should I spy but my own true lover

As she sat under yon willow tree

I took off my hat and I did salute her

I did salute her most courageously

When she turned around, well, the tears fell from her

Sayin' “False young man, you have deluded me

A diamond ring I owned, I gave you

A diamond ring to wear on your right hand

But the vows you made, love, you went and broke them

And married the lassie that had the land"