The Sign of the Bonny Blue Bell

1. As I was a walking one morning in May
To view the green fields and the meadows so gay,
I heard a fair damsel so sweet she did sing
O I will be married on a Tuesday morning
I heard a fair damsel so sweet did she sing;
O I will be married on a Tuesday morning.

2. I stepped up to her and thus I did say:
Pray where do you come from and what is your age?
I belong to the sign of the Bonny Blue Bell;
My age is sixteen-which you know very well.
I belong to the sign of the Bonny Blue Bell;
My age is sixteen-which you know very well.

3. Sixteen, pretty maid, you are young for to marry.
I’ll leave you the other four years for to tarry.
You speak like a man without any skill;
Four years I’ve been single against my own will.
You speak like a man without any skill;
Four years I’ve been single against my own will.

4. On Monday night when I shall go there
To powder my locks and to curdle my hair,
There’ll be three pretty maidens for me a-waiting;
o I will be married on a Tuesday morning.
There’ll be three pretty maidens for me a-waiting;
O I will be married on a Tuesday morning.

5. On a Tuesday morning the bells they shall ring,
And three pretty maidens so sweetly shall sing:
So neat and so gay will be my golden ring.
O I will be married on a Tuesday morning.
So neat and so gay will be my golden ring.
O I will be married on a Tuesday morning.