36 AULD ROBIN GRAY My heart it said nay; I looked for Jamie back; But the wind it blew high, and the ship it was a wrack, His ship it was a wrack- why didna Jamie dee, Or why do I live to cry, Wae 's me? My father urgit sair: my mother didna speak; But she looked in my face till my heart was like to break: They gi'ed him my hand, but my heart was at the sea: Sae auld Robin Gray he was gudeman to me. I hadna been a wife a week but only four, he Till he said, "I'm come hame to marry thee." Oh, sair, sair did we greet, and muckle did we say; We took but ae kiss, and I bad him gang away: I gang like a ghaist, and I carena to spin; I daurna think on Jamie, for that waud be a sin; For auld Robin Gray he is kind unto me. You see the city from the hill, They tell me every day is there that we The curé's right; he says Ambition ruins all mankind. Yet could I there two days have spent, Thy pardon, father, I beseech, |