Henry's Songbook

Ten o'clock is ringing, Mother, let me out
My lad is standing waiting to take me out a walk
First he gave me apples, then he gave me pears
Then he gave me a sixpence to kiss him on the stair

My lad's a bonny lad, my lad's a dandy
My lad's a bonny lad, sweet as sugar candy

(as sung by Jeannie Robertson)

[1984:] A charming little kid's rhyme which Jeannie learned in the Middle School of the Gallowgate in Aberdeen. (Hamish Henderson, notes Jeannie Robertson 'Up the Dee and Doon the Don')