Twa Recruiting Sergeants

Oh, It's over the mountains, and over the main
 Through Gibraltar to France and Spain
 Its a feather tae your bonnet, and a kilt abeen your knee
 Enlist bonnie laddie an' come awa wi me
 Oh, It's over the mountain, and over the main
 Through Gibraltar to France and Spain
 It's a feather tae your bonnet, and a kilt abeen your knee
 Enlist bonnie laddie an' come awa wi me
 Now twa recruitin' sairgants cam frae the black watch
 To markets and fairs some recruits for to catch
 An' a' that they listed was forty an' twa
 So list bonnie laddie an' come awa
 Oh, It's over the mountains, and over the main
 Through Gibraltar to France and Spain
 It's a feather tae your bonnet, and a kilt abeen your knee
 En list bonnie laddie an' come awa wi me
 Now laddie, ye dinna ken the danger that ye're in
 If your horses wis to fleg an' your ousen wis to rin
 This greedy auld fairmer winna pey your fee
 So list bonnie laddie an' come awa wi me
 Oh, It's over the mountains, and over the main
 Through Gibraltar to France and Spain
 It's a feather tae your bonnet, and a kilt abeen your knee
 Enlist bonnie laddie an' come awa wi me
 It is oot' by the barn an' in by the byre
 This auld fairmer thinks ye'll never tire
 For it's a slavery job of low degree
 So list bonnie laddie an' come awa wi me.
 Oh, It's over the mountains, and over the main
 Through Gibraltar to France and Spain
 It's a feather tae your bonnet, and a kilt abeen your knee
 Enlist bonnie laddie an' come awa wi me
 Now, laddie if ye've got a sweetheart an' bairn
 Ye'll easily get rid o' that ill-spun yarn
 Twa rattles o' the drum an that'll pey it a'
 So list bonnie laddie an' come awa
 For it's over the mountains, and over the main
 Through Gibraltar to France and Spain
 It's a feather tae your bonnet, and a kilt abeen your knee
 Enlist bonnie laddie an' come awa wi me
 For it's over the mountains, and over the main
 Through Gibraltar to France and Spain
 It's a feather tae your bonnet, and a kilt abeen your knee
 Enlist bonnie laddie an' come awa wi me