Dog & Gun

With my dog and gun through the blooming heather
 To seek for past-time I chanced to stray
 There a maid I spied, she was tall and slender
 Her looks enticed me a while to stay
 Says I "My fair maid I own I love you
 Tell me your name and your dwelling also"
 "Excuse my name sir, you'll find my dwelling
 By the mountain stream where the moorcocks crow
 "If you'd consent and go with a rover
 My former rakings I would leave aside
 I'm doomed to love you, so don't prove cruel
 But do agree to become my bride"
 "If my parents knew that I loved a rover
 It's great affliction I would undergo
 In a dungeon dark they would close confine me
 By the mountain stream where the moorcocks crow"
 "If you'll call round, and frequent my parents
 Lest a hasty marriage should produce a foe
 I'll stay at home for another season
 By the mountain stream..."
 "Then it's hand in hand, we shall roam together
 And I'll escort you to the plains below
 Where the linnet changes her notes more pleasant
 By the mountain stream where the moorcocks crow"