Maid of Fife - The Clancy Brothers

Maid of Fife - The Clancy Brothers
There once was a troop of Irish dragoons
Come marching down thru Fyfie o
And the captain feel in love with a very bonnie lass
And the name she was called was pretty Peggy o
There's many a bonnie lass in the glen of Auchterlass
There's many a bonnie lass in the Gairioch o
There's many a bonnie Jean in the streets of Aberdeen
But the flower of them all lives in Fyvie o
Come down the stairs Pretty Peggy my dear
Come down the stairs Pretty Peggy o
Come down the stairs comb back your yellow hair
Bid a long farewell to your mammy o
I never did intend a soldier's lady for to be
I never will marry a soldier o
I never did intend to gae tae a foreign land
And I never will marry a soldier o
The colonel he cried mount boys mount boys mount
The captain he cried tarry o
O tarry yet a while another day or twa
Till I see if the bonnie lass will marry o
Well long ere we came to the glen of Auchterlass
Our captain we had to take carry o
And long ere we came to the streets of Aberdeen
Our captain we had to take bury o
Green grow the birks on bonnie Ethanside
And low lie the lowlands of Fyvie o
The captain's name was Ned and he died for a maid
He died for the bonny lass of Fyvie o
There's many a bonnie lass in the glen of Auchterlass
There's many a bonnie lass in the Gairioch o
There's many a bonnie Jean in the streets of Aberdeen
But the flower of them all lives in Fyvie o