The Bonie Moor-Hen
the bonie moor-hen the heather was blooming, the meadows were mawn, our lads gaed a-hunting ae day at the dawn, o'er moors and o'er mosses and mony a glen, at length they discover'd a bonie moor-hen. chorus.—i rede you, beware at the hunting, young men, i rede you, beware at the hunting, young men; take some on the wing, and some as they spring, but cannily steal on a bonie moor-hen. sweet—brushing the dew from the brown heather bells her colours betray'd her on yon mossy fells; her plumage outlustr'd the pride o' the spring and o! as she wanton'd sae gay on the wing. i rede you, c. auld phoebus himself, as he peep'd o'er the hill, in spite at her plumage he tried his skill; he levell'd his rays where she bask'd on the brae— his rays were outshone, and but mark'd where she lay. i rede you,c. they hunted the valley, they hunted the hill, the best of our lads wi' the best o' their skill; but still as the fairest she sat in their sight, then, whirr! she was over, a mile at a flight. i rede you, c.