...Well, see what you think of this version:

By yon bonnie banks and yon bonnie braes
Where the sun shines bright on Loch Lomond
Where me and my true love were ever wont to go
By the bonnie, bonnie banks of Loch Lomond.

I well recall the day when my love he marched away,
And I followed in the baggage train behind him,
Wi' Charlie Stuart's men, oh, we left both hill and glen
And we left the bonny loch far behind us.

But oh, the road was hard for a poor young lass to bear
And the battles that we won they hardly cheered us
Till my love he sent me home, never more wi' him to roam
To seek the bonny cottage by Loch Lomond, he said,

(Chorus)
"You take the high road and I'll take the low road
And I'll be in Scotland afore ye,
And we'll hear the pipes in tune as we dance beneath the moon,
By the bonny, bonny banks of Loch Lomond

The church bells they rang and the small birds they sang
And the rain it poured down on the gloamin'
As with many's the highland yell, upon the bloody ground they fell
And the musket shots rang out around them

(Repeat chorus)

Now there's purple in the heather and there's gold among the trees
And blue in the sky round Loch Lomond
But my heart's black as stone, since I'm left here all alone
To watch the silver moon rise in the gloamin'

(Repeat chorus)
...And me and my true love will never meet again,
By the bonny, bonny banks of Loch Lomond.

That version won't have been posted on Mudcat before because I wrote it!
Bruce Michael Baillie