Lyrics:

My love he built a bonny ship and set her on the sea
With seven score good mariners to bear her company.
But there's three score of them is sunk and three score dead at sea
And the lowlands of Holland has twined my love and me.

My love has built another ship and set her on the main
And nane but twenty mariners all for to bring her hame.
But the weary wind began to rise, the sea began to roll
And my love then and his bonny ship turned with the shins about.

There shall nae a comb come on my head nor comb come in my hair
There shall neither coal nor candlelight shine in my bower mair.
And neither will I marry until the day I dee
For I never had a love but one and he's drowned in the sea.

Oh haud your tongue my daughter dear, be still and be content.
There's lad's enough in Gallowa', you need not sore lament.
Oh there's nane enough in Galloway, alas there's nane ata' me
For I never had a love but one and he's drowned in the sea.