Last nicht there were four Marys, The nicht there'll be but three There's Mary Beaton and Mary Seaton And Mary Carmichael and me. How often have I dressed my queen, Put gold upon her hair And aw the thank's I've got this nicht, The gallows tae be my share Last nicht I dressed Queen Mary, Put on her braw silk goon And aw the thanks I've got this nicht, Is to be hanged in Edinb'ro toon

They'll tie a kerchief roon' my eyes, They no let me see And they'll never tell my mother, But that I've gone ower the sea I charge ye all ye sailors, When ye sail ower the foam Let neither my mother nor father know, But that I'm coming home O little did my mother think, When first she cradled me The lands I was tae travel in, Or the death I was tae dee

Last nicht there were four Marys. This nicht there'll be but three There were Mary Beaton and Mary Seaton And Mary Carmichael, and me.

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