Oh the highland lands are come to town
And landed in head waters
The colonel fell for a pretty little girl
The farmer's only daughter
The general bet five thousand pounds
The colonel wouldn't dress up in a beggars gowns
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Would she travel the world around and round
Would she go with the rambling siuler

Oh the colonel started out next day
Dressed in beggars clothing
It wasn't long til he found his way
To the farmer's lowly dwelling
"Oh farmer shelter me for the night
I'll sleep in your barn until daylight
Take pity on a beggar's awful plight
God help a rambling siuler."

The farmer said, "The night is wet
You can come to the kitchen fire."
The colonel says to the serving maid
"It's you I do admire
Would you leave them all and come with me
Leave them all my stor mo chroi"
"What a lusty beggar you must be
Away with the rambling siuler!"
The farmer and his servants all
They fell into loud laughter
When who came tripping down the stairs
But the farmer's only daughter
She'd two bright eyes like the morning skies
Soon as the beggar he did her spy
She fairly caught his roving eye
"She'll be mine, " says the rambling siuler

And the farmer and his servants all
They went out to the byre
He put his arm around her waist
As they sat by the kitchen fire
He put his hand upon her knee
Unto her gave kisses three
Says she, "How dare you make so free
And it's you but a rambling siuler."

When supper it was over
They made his bed in the barn
Between two sacks and a winnow cloth
For fear that he take harm
At twelve o'clock that very night
She came to the barn
She was dressed in white
The beggar rose in great delight
"She's mine, " says the rambling siuler
And he threw off his beggar's clothes
He threw them against the wall
He stood the bravest gentleman
That was among them all
Will you look at my locks of golden hair
Under this sooty old hat I wear
"I'm a colonel bold I do declare, and none but a
Rambling siuler."

"And I wouldn't for one hundred pounds
That you and I be found here
Would you travel around the whole night long
And go with the rambling siuler, "
So it's off to the general's house they've gone
Great is the wager he has won
And away to the sound of the fife and the drum
She's away with the rambling siuler