作词 : Cara Dillon/Sam Lakeman

作曲 : Cara Dillon/Sam Lakeman

It being in the spring time

and the small birds they were singing,

Down by yon shady harbour

I carelessly did stray,

Then the thrushes they were warbling,

The violets they were charming

To view fond lovers talking,

a while I did delay.

She said, my dear

don't leave me for another season,

Though fortune does be pleasing

I 'll go along with you,

I 'll forsake friends

and relations and bid this holy nation,

And to the bonny Bann banks forever I 'll bid adieu.

He said, my dear

don't grieve

or yet annoy my patience,

You know I love you dearly the more I'm going away,

I'm going to a foreign nation

to purchase a plantation,

To comfort us here after all in Amerika.

HO HO HO~~

Then after a short while

a fortune does be pleasing,

I'will cause them for to smile at our late going away,

We'll be happy as Queen Victoria,

all in her greatest glory,

We'll be drinking wine and porter all in Amerika.

If you were in your bed lying and thinking on dying,

The sight of the lovely Bann banks,so your sorrow you'd give over,

Or if you were down one hour,

down in yon a shady bower,

Pleasure would surround you,

you'd think on death no more.

Then fare you well,

sweet Cragie Hills,

where often times I've roved,

I never thought my childhood days I 'd part you any more,

Now we're sailing on the ocean for honour and promotion,

And the bonny boats are sailing,way down by Doorin shore.