Down the Moor Songtext
von Maura O’Connell

As I roved out the moor one day
It being fair and sunny weather
Some miles from home I chanced to roam
Across the bonny purple heather

Down the moor and across the heather
Down the moor and across the heather
Some miles from home I chanced to roam
Across the bonny purple heather
Down the moor

As I rolled along to the hunting song
My heart was light as any feather
When I saw a lass coming o′er the grass
Tripping the dew from off the heather


Down the moor and across the heather
Down the moor and across the heather
Some miles from home I chanced to roam
Across the bonny purple heather
Down the moor

I said, "My lass, where are you going?
Hill or dale, oh tell me whither"
"I'm going to the banks of the bonny brown braes
Where the feeding of me lambs together"

Down the moor and across the heather
Down the moor and across the heather
Some miles from home I chanced to roam
Across the bonny purple heather
Down the moor

Oh, she cast and away she went
Her name or place I ne′er did gather
But if I were king I'd make her queen
That bonny wee lass across the heather


Down the moor and across the heather
Down the moor and across the heather
Some miles from home I chanced to roam
Across the bonny purple heather
Down the moor