Are Ye Sleeping Maggie?: Are Ye Sleeping Maggie? / The Noose and the Ghillie Songtext
von The Tannahill Weavers

Mirk an′ dreary is the nicht
There's no′ a staurn in a' the carry
Lichtnin's gleam athwart the lift
The cauld winds drive wi′ winter′s fury

Oh, are ye sleepin' Maggie
Oh, and are ye sleepin′ Maggie
Let me in for loud the linn
Is howlin' ower the warlock Craigie


Fearfu′ soughs the boortree bank
The rifted wood roars wild and dreary
Loud the iron yett does clank
The cry of hoolits mak's me eerie

Abune my breath I daurnae speak
For fear I rouse your waukrife daddy
Cauld′s the blast upon my cheek
Arise, arise, my bonnie lady

She's op'd the door, she′s let him in
She′s cuist aside his dreepin' plaidie
What care I for rain or wind
For Maggie noo I′m here aside ye