This is a Scottish version of the song - done from memory though!


Oh my love he built a bonnie ship
And he sailed her on the sea
Wi' seiven score brave mariners
To bear her companie
Three score gaed to the bottom
And three score deed at sea
And the Lowlands of Holland
Hae twined my love and me

So my love he built anither ship
And he set her on the main
Wi' nocht but twenty mariners
To bring her safely hame
But the weary wind began tae rise
The ship began tae route
And my love and his bonnie ship
Turned widdershins about

There shall nae coif come on my heid
Nae kame gang through my hair
And neither coal nor candle licht
Shine in my bower nae mair
Nor shall I love anither lad
Until the day I dee
For I hae loed a lad but ane
And he's drowned in the sea

Haud yer tongue my dochter dear
Be still and be content
There's mair lads in Galloway
Ye shouldna sae lament
There's nae lads in Galloway
There's nane at all for me
For I hae loed a lad but ane
And he's drouned in the sea