Now I met a Bonnie lassie coming down the Cairnie Brae,
And I thought that I would follow her and see what was her way.
She was awful neat and awful sweet and needless that I say,
She stole away my heart in the morning.
Oh, Kate!
From Arran's lovely isle, won't you cuddle close my lass and give a lad a smile.
I'm a Scotsman and I'm proud of it but och I'd walk a mile,
Just to get a glimpse of you in the morning.
Now her mother was a Lafferty and came from Donegal, and her father was a sailor man from anywhere at all.
But it only goes to show me lads, the world is very small, or I never would have met her in the morning.
Oh, Kate!
From Arran's lovely isle, won't you cuddle close my lass and give a lad a smile.
I'm a Scotsman and I'm proud of it but och I'd walk a mile,
Just to get a glimpse of you in the morning.
She has said I can come calling if I really have a mind, with a careless invitation of her teasing woman kind,
She would find a way to get me lads, of thieving I was blamed,
For I followed her myself in the morning.
Oh, Kate!
From Arran's lovely isle, won't you cuddle close my lass and give a lad a smile.
I'm a Scotsman and I'm proud of it but och I'd walk a mile,
Just to get a glimpse of you in the morning.
There will be wedding bells a ringing lads, if I can get my way,
And the shamrock and the thistle be united in a day,
In a cottage that I call my own, the darling girl will stay,
And I'll have her by my side every morning.
Oh, Kate!
From Arran's lovely isle, won't you cuddle close my lass and give a lad a smile.
I'm a Scotsman and I'm proud of it but och I'd walk a mile,
Just to get a glimpse of you in the morning.
Just to get a glimpse of you in the morning!