Here's the version from Caledonia's Hardy Sons. There were a few minor changes in the verses you had, which I've marked in bold. Mick
GLASGOW PEGGY First when I come tae Glesga toon The Hieland troops were a' before me And the bonniest lass that e'er I saw She lived in Glesga, they ca'ed her Peggy Their chief did meet her faither soon And oh, but he was wondrous angry He says, "Ye mon tak my oxen and kye But ye maunna tak my bonnie Peggy" "Oh, haud yer tongue, ye gude auld man For I've got coos and yowes already I come nae to steal yer oxen nor kye But I will hae yer bonny Peggy" He set her on his guid black horse And he himsel' on a fine grey naigie And they're awa' mony miles to the north And nane wi' them, but the bonny Peggy And I've got noo a thousand sheep A' grazing on yon hills sae bonny And ilka hundred, a shepherd has Although I be but a Hieland laddie Oxen and sheep are guid and guid enough But corn stacks are mickle better; They will stand in the drift and snow When the sheep will be with the wind and the weather. Ah but I've got fifty acre of land And it's a' plood and sown already I am Lord Donald of the Isles And why shud nae Peggy be called my lady? And see ye no yon castles and towers The sun shines on sae bricht and bonny? I am Lord Donald o' the Isles, And I think I'll marry as blithe as ony. Source: Silly Wizard: Caledonia's Hardy Sons youtube recording
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