The Unthanks 'Annachie Gordon'

Buchan, it's bonny, and there lives my love
My heart it lies on him, and it will not remove
It will not remove for all that I've done
Never will I forget my love Anachie
For Anachie Gordon, he's bonny and he's braw
He'd entice any woman that ever him saw
He'd entice any woman and so he has done me
Never will I forget my love Anachie

Down came her father, standing on the floor
Saying Jeannie you're trying the tricks of a whore
You care nothing for a man who cares so very much for thee
You must marry Lord Saltoun and forget young Anachie
For Anachie Gordon he's only but a man
And although he may be pretty but where are all his lands
Saltouns lands are broad and his towers they stand high
You must marry Lord Saltoun and forget young Anachie

With Anachie Gordon I'd beg for my bread
Before I'd marry Saltoun with gold to my head
With gold to my head and with gowns fringed to the knee
Oh I'll die if I don't get my love Anachie
And you that are my parents to the church you may me bring
Oh but unto Lord Saltoun I will never bear a son
Oh a son or a daughter I'll never bow my knee
I'll die if I don't get my love Anachie

When Jeannie was married from the church she was brought home
She and her maidens so merry should have been
When she and her maidens so merry should have been
She's gone to her chamber and she's crying all alone

Come to bed now Jeannie, my honey and my sweet
For to style you my mistress it would not be meet
Oh it's mistress or Jeannie it's all the same to me
For it's in your bed Saltoun I never shall be
Up and spoke her father and he's spoken with renown
All of you that are her maidens won't you loosen off her gown
But she fell down in a swoon, so low down by their knees
Saying look on for I'm dying for my love Anachie

The day that Jeannie married was the day that Jeannie died
That's the day young Anachie comes rolling from the tide
And down came her maidens and they're wringing of their hands
Saying woe to you Anachie for staying from the sands
So long from the sands and so long upon the flood
They've married your Jeannie and now she is dead

All you that are her maidens won't you take me by the hand
Won't you lead me to the chamber where my true love lies
And he's kissed her cold lips until his heart turned to stone
And he's died in the chamber where his true love lay