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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ROY'S WIFE, by ELIZABETH GRANT
First Line: Roy's wife of aldivalloch!
Last Line: Though she's for ever left her johnnie.
Alternate Author Name(s): Grant Of Carron, Mrs.
Subject(s): Unfaithfulness; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy
First Line: Roy's wife of aldivalloch!
Last Line: Though she's for ever left her johnnie.
Alternate Author Name(s): Grant Of Carron, Mrs.
Subject(s): Unfaithfulness; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy
ROY'S wife of Aldivalloch!
Roy's wife of Aldivalloch! --
Wat ye how she cheated me
As I cam' o'er the braes o' Balloch.
She vowed, she swore, she wad be mine,
She said she lo'ed me best of ony;
But ah! the fickle, faithless quean,
She's ta'en the carle, and left her Johnnie.
O, she was a canty quean,
Weel could she dance the Highland walloch;
How happy I, had she been mine,
Or I been Roy of Aldivalloch!
Her hair sae fair, her e'en sae clear,
Her wee bit mou' sae sweet and bonnie;
To me she ever will be dear,
Though she's for ever left her Johnnie.
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