You can hear this at The Internet Archive. Here is my transcription. Note there's a phrase that maddeningly eludes me in verse 2. Any help would be appreciated.


MY BONNIE, BONNIE JEAN: (SHE COMES FRAE BONNIE SCOTLAND WHERE THE BLUEBELL GROWS)*
Words and music by Harry Lauder
New York: T. B. Harms & Francis, Day & Hunter, ©1915
As sung by Harry Lauder, 1916.

1. In a nice wee hoosie
On the banks o' Loch Lomond
Lives a bonnie lass that I love best.
Oh, there no mistake aboot her;
I could never live withoot her
'Cause there's no another like her in the West.
She lives wi her grannie,
Her dear old grannie,
And very fond o' her she seems to be.
I ken how Grannie loves her.
Och! ev'rybody loves her,
But no one loves her half as much as me.

CHORUS: Oh, I love ma Jean, ma bonnie, bonnie Jean.
She's very fascinating an' she's only seeventeen,
An' her hair is nice an' crispy; her cheeks are like the rose,
An' she comes frae bonnie Scotland where the bluebell grows.

2. Oh, the first time Ah met her,
She went for a pail o' water.
She was waiting on it filling at the spring.
As she was standing waiting,
I said, "No use hesitating,"
So I asked her if she'd like to wear a ring.
She said that I was cheeky,
I was sly and I was sneaky.
She said she thocht that ....(?)
I said, "Ye're such a beauty
That I'll have to do ma duty."
So I kissed her 'cause there's danger in delay.


[* The sheet music uses the spelling BONNIE but some recordings have BONNY.]