Annachie Gordon

<br>Harking is bonny and there lives my love<br>My heart lies on him and cannot remove<br>It cannot remove for all that I have done<br>And I never will forget my love Annachie<br>For Annachie Gordon he`s bonny and he`s bright<br>He`d entice any woman that e`er he saw<br>He`d entice any woman and so he has done me<br>And I never will forget my love Annachie.<br><br><br>Down came her father and he`s standing at the door<br>Saying Jeannie you are trying the tricks of a whore<br>You care nothing for a man who cares so much for thee<br>You must marry Lord Sultan and leave Annachie<br>For Annachie Gordon is barely but a man<br>Although he may be pretty but where are his lands<br>The Sultan`s lands are broad and his towers they run high<br>You must marry Lord Sultan and leave Annachie.<br><br><br>With Annachie Gordon I beg for my bread<br>And before I marry Sultan his gold to my head<br>With gold to my head and straight down to my knees<br>And I`ll die if I don`t get my love Annachie<br>And you who are my parents to church you may me bring<br>But unto Lord Sultan I`ll never bear a son<br>To a son or a daughter I`ll never bow my knee<br>And I`ll die if I don`t get my love Annachie.<br><br><br>Jeannie was married and from church was brought home<br>When she and her maidens so merry should have been<br>When she and her maidens so merry should have been<br>She goes into her chamber and cries all alone.<br><br><br>Come to my bed my Jeannie my honey and my sweet<br>To stile you my mistress it would be so sweet<br>Be it mistress or Jeanne it`s all the same to me<br>But in your bed Lord Sultan I never will lie<br>And down came her father and he`s spoken with reknownSaying you who are her maidens<br>Go loosen up her gowns<br>And she fell down to the floor<br>And straight down to his knee saying<br>Father look I`m dying for my love Annachie.<br><br><br>The day that Jeanne married was the day that Jeannie died<br>And the day that young Annachie came home on the tide<br>And down came her maidens all wringing of their hands<br>Saying oh it`s been so long, you`ve been so long on the sands<br>So long on the sands, so long on the flood<br>They have married your Jeannie and now she lies dead.<br><br><br>You who are her maidens come take me by the hand<br>And lead me to the chamber where my love she lies in<br>And he kissed her cold lips till his heart it turned to stone<br>And he died in the chamber where his love she lies in.