Dog & Gun - Bella Hardy
With be dog and gun
Through the blooming heather
To seek for past-time
I chanced to stray
There a maid I spied
She was tall and slender
Her looks enticed me a while to stay
Says I my fair maid
I own I love you
Tell me your name
And your dwelling also
Excuse my name sir
You'll find my dwelling
By the mountain stream
Where the moorcocks crow
If you'd consent and go with a rover
My former rakings I would leave aside
I'm doomed to love you
So don't prove cruel
But do agree to become my bride
If my parents knew that I loved a rover
It's great affliction I would undergo
In a dungeon dark they
Would close confine me
By the mountain stream
Where the moorcocks crow
If you'll call round
And frequent my parents
Lest a hasty marriage should produce a foe
I'll stay at home for another season
By the mountain stream
It's hand in hand
We were roam together
And I'll escort to the plains below
Where the linnet changes
It's notes more pleasant
By the mountain stream
Where the moorcocks crow
