The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #97333   Message #1913656
Posted By: ClaireBear
19-Dec-06 - 10:38 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Bonnie Green Garters
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Bonnie Green Garters
As I recall, Berkeley Morris sings it thus:

Here's to the lasses, we love them so well,
Though some are regular Tartars!
Here's to their stockings and here's to their shoes
And here's to their bonny green garters.

Here's to the laddies, we love them so well,
Though some are very slow starters.
Off with their baldrics and off with their bells,
But leave their bonny green garters.

(It's been awhile, so I'm not sure about the third line in verse 1. Pretty sure of the rest, though.)