Rantin Laddie

G F G F G F G C G F G F Oft have I played at the cards and dice G F G With my bonnie Rantin' Laddie F G C But now I'm a-sitting in my father's hall G F G Singing ba to my bastard baby F Oh, if I'd been wise as I've been nice G F G And done what my bonnie lad told me F G C I'd have been married a year or more G F G To my bonnie Rantin' Laddie F Oh, my father dear, he knows me not G F G My mother she ignores me F G C My friends and relations slight me all G F G And the servants, they quite hate me F Is your love a lord or is he a laird G F G Or is he but a caddie F G C That you so oft call on his name G F G Your bonnie Rantin' Laddie F If I had a horse at my command G F G As oft times I've had many F G C I'd ride away to the gates of Aboyne G F G To my bonnie Rantin' Laddie F Then up and spake a kitchen boy G F G Saying, "Though I'm but a caddie F G C It's I will run to the Gates of Aboyne G F G With a letter to your Rantin' Laddie" F And as he ran through Buchanshire G F G And Buchan shone so bonnie F G C There he met with the Earl of Aboyne G F G That they call the Rantin' Laddie F And when he looked the letter on G F G Oh, but he was sorry F G C "They've been cruel and fell unkind G F G To out bonnie Rantin' Lassie" F Oh, my father dear, he knows me not G F G My mother she ignores me F G C My friends and relations slight me all G F G And the servants, they quite hate me F Then get thee out five hundred men G F G And see that they ride so bonny F G C We'll bring the lassie back to Aboyne G F G Out bonnie Rantin' Lassie G F G F G F G C G F G F When she was up behind his back G F G Wrapped in her hieland plaidie F G C The birds in the trees sang never so sweet G F G As the bonnie Rantin' Lassie F And they rode on through Buchanshire G F G And Buchan shone so bonnie F G C Rejoice, rejoice ye bonnie maids all G F G An' see that ye be not sorry F If you lay your love on a lowland lad G F G Be sure that he'll betray ye F G C But lay your love on a hieland lad G F G He'll do all that he can to raise ye