Herd
Your neck shall be like the bonny beaten gold,
And your wings of the silver grey.

The word 'like' here seems to be significant!

According to Chappell the 'Scottified Herd version was preceded by lots of English versions printed in Vauxhall Songsters and the like with its music.' He also suggests that Hook could well have been the composer of the tune.

The English version has :
Your breast shall be of the beaming gold,
And your wings of the silver grey.

It was obviously very popular in the London pleasure gardens where this type of classical poetry was rife in the 18thc.