Gordon Bok - Rantin Laddie Chords

[Intro]
G    F  G  F G    F G C    G F  G

[Verse]
                                   F
Oft have I played at the cards and dice
        G              F  G
With my bonnie Rantin' Laddie
              F             G        C
But now I'm a-sitting in my father's hall
        G        F         G
Singing ba to my bastard baby

[Verse]
                                  F
Oh, if I'd been wise as I've been nice
    G                       F    G
And done what my bonnie lad told me
              F         G       C
I'd have been married a year or more
      G      F       G
To my bonnie Rantin' Laddie

[Verse]
                                F
Oh, my father dear, he knows me not
   G            F     G
My mother she ignores me
                 F       G         C
My friends and relations slight me all
        G         F          G
And the servants, they quite hate me

[Verse]
                               F
Is your love a lord or is he a laird
   G           F  G
Or is he but a caddie
            F        G      C
That you so oft call on his name
     G      F       G
Your bonnie Rantin' Laddie

[Verse]
                          F
If I had a horse at my command
   G         F        G
As oft times I've had many
          F          G         C
I'd ride away to the gates of Aboyne
      G      F       G
To my bonnie Rantin' Laddie

[Verse]
                            F
Then up and spake a kitchen boy
         G                F  G
Saying, "Though I'm but a caddie
            F          G         C
It's I will run to the Gates of Aboyne
       G              F       G
With a letter to your Rantin' Laddie"

[Verse]
                            F
And as he ran through Buchanshire
    G               F  G
And Buchan shone so bonnie
         F            G        C
There he met with the Earl of Aboyne
          G        F       G
That they call the Rantin' Laddie

[Verse]
                              F
And when he looked the letter on
G              F  G
Oh, but he was sorry
              F         G      C
"They've been cruel and fell unkind
       G      F          G
To out bonnie Rantin' Lassie"

[Verse]
                                F
Oh, my father dear, he knows me not
   G            F     G
My mother she ignores me
                 F       G         C
My friends and relations slight me all
        G         F          G
And the servants, they quite hate me

[Verse]
                               F
Then get thee out five hundred men
    G             F       G
And see that they ride so bonny
                F      G        C
We'll bring the lassie back to Aboyne
    G      F       G
Out bonnie Rantin' Lassie

[Instrumental]
G    F  G  F G    F G C    G F  G

[Verse]
                           F
When she was up behind his back
G                      F   G
Wrapped in her hieland plaidie
                 F          G        C
The birds in the trees sang never so sweet
       G      F       G
As the bonnie Rantin' Lassie

[Verse]
                               F
And they rode on through Buchanshire
    G               F  G
And Buchan shone so bonnie
           F        G            C
Rejoice, rejoice ye bonnie maids all
    G           F      G
An' see that ye be not sorry

[Verse]
                                  F
If you lay your love on a lowland lad
   G                 F    G
Be sure that he'll betray ye
             F         G       C
But lay your love on a hieland lad
         G                  F     G
He'll do all that he can to raise ye