My Bonnie Lies Over The Ocean

Words & Music:

Originally Traditional Scottish

(pub. In 1882 by Charles E. Pratt

under the pseudonyms J.T. Wood & H.J. Fulmer)

 

   D           G        D                      G        A7

My Bonnie lies over the ocean.  My Bonnie lies over the sea.

D              G        D         G             A7        D

My Bonnie lies over the ocean. Oh, bring back my Bonnie to me!

 

CHORUS:

D           G           A7                      D

Bring back, bring back, bring back my Bonnie to me, to me!

D           G               A7                      D

Bring back, bring back, oh, bring back my Bonnie to me!

 

Last night as I lay on my pillow, last night as I lay on my bed,

Last night as I lay on my pillow, I dreamed that my bonnie was dead.

 

CHORUS:

 

Oh, blow ye the winds o'er the ocean and blow ye the winds o'er the sea.

Oh, blow ye the winds o'er the ocean and bring back my bonnie to me.

 

CHORUS:

 

The winds have blown over the ocean, the winds have blown over the sea.

The winds have blown over the ocean and brought back my bonnie to me!

 

CHORUS:

 




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