As I roved out one bright May morning   To view the purple heather and flowers gay   Who should I spy but my own true lover   As she sat under yon willow tree      I took off my hat and I did salute her   I did salute her most courageously   When she turned around and the tears fell from her eyes   Saying, "False young man, you have deluded me"      Three diamond rings for love I gave you   Three diamond rings to wear on your right hand   But the vows you made, love, you went and broke them   And married the lassie that had the land      If I married the lassie that had the land, my love   'Tis that I'll rue until the day I die   But when fortune calls few men can shun it   I was a blind fool was I      Now at night when I go to my bed of slumber   The thoughts of my true love run in my mind   When I turned around to embrace my darling   Instead of gold 'tis brass I find      And I wish the Queen would call home her armies   From the West Indies, America and Spain   And every man to his homeland would run   And I in hope that we'd meet again      As I roved out one bright May morning   To view the purple heather and flowers gay   Who should I spy but my own true lover   As she sat under yon willow tree