Bonnie Leezie Lindsay





This YouTube video of the playing of Edison Blue Amberol Cylinder #12080, written by Frank Folloy and Harry Lauder in 1910, is performed by Sir Harry Lauder in 1927.




Bonnie Leezie Lindsay

Of sweethearts I have had a lot,
But their names and faces I've never forgot,
And as sure as I stand on this spot,
I'm in love wi' bonnie Leezie Lindsay.
When first I saw her bonnie wee face,
It was love at first sight in my case.
My heart it nearly left it's place,
When I saw my bonnie Leezie Lindsay.

Chorus
For I'm coortin' bonnie Leezie Lindsay noo,
Courtin' bonnie Leezie Lindsay noo,
My friends they say mon yer all richt too,
For you're coortin' bonnie Leezie Lindsay noo,
Coortin' bonnie Leezie Lindsay noo,
Coortin' bonnie Leezie Lindsay noo,
My friends they say mon yer all richt too,
For you're coortin' bonnie Leezie Lindsay noo.

Last winter when the frost was on
We both went skatin' on Loch Long.
Of coorse I had my troosers on,
Well I always do when I go skatin'!
As we went glidin' o'er the ice,
I was very near doon once or twice,
But Leezie lifted me so nice,
For o' me she's very very careful!

Chorus

We went on a motoring tour last June,
We started frae the toon o' Troon,
Up mountains, valleys roon' and roon',
Till we landed at Balmoral Castle.
And when the king and the queen saw me,
We both were invited in to tea,
Then the king said to me, "Mon I'm very pleased to see,
That yer coortin' bonnie Leezie Lindsay."

Last Chorus
"Yer coortin' bonnie Leezie Lindsay noo,
Coortin' bonnie Lindsay noo,
Mon I would give a fiver to be you,
To be coortin' bonnie Leezie Lindsay noo,
Coortin' bonnie Leezie Lindsay noo,
Mon I would give a fiver to be you,
To be coortin' bonnie Leezie Lindsay noo."

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