The Highland lullaby

O hush! My sweet little Donald

Image of the great Clan Ronald!

Excellently teaches our wanton Chief

That fathered my young Highland thief.

(O hush!)

Dear to me is thy pretty neck!

If thou live, thou'll steal a horse,

Travel the country through and through,

and bring home a Carlisle cow!

Through the Lowlands, over the Border,

Well, my baby, may thou thrive!

Harry the lads of the low Country,

Afterwards to the Highlands home to me!