The Girl From The Highlands

I walked down to Inverness in the fall of twenty-three
With a dream of what American might hold
My pretty, blue-eyes Bonnie made every step with me
Scared to death and shivering from the cold
I promised that I'd send for her - in just a little while
Kissed her on the cheek, then set sail across the miles

She was standing on the shore, waving goodbye
Pledged her love forevermore, with a teardrop in her eye
Though twenty years have come and gone, and I've tried with all my might
The girl from the highlands, haunts me every night

To the busy streets of Boston in the year of twenty-five
Word had come from across the ocean wide
That winter in the highlands - fever spread like a fire
And my pretty blue-eyed Bonnie, she had died
The guilt will live inside me, 'till I'm drawing my last breathe
I never should have left her, that day in Inverness

She was standing on the shore, waving goodbye
Pledged her love forevermore, with a teardrop in her eye
Though twenty years have come and gone, and I've tried with all my might
The girl from the highlands, haunts me every night

She lives within the shadows that fall upon the walls
And she walks through my dreams until the morning calls

She was standing on the shore, waving goodbye
Pledged her love forevermore, with a teardrop in her eye
Though twenty years have come and gone, and I've tried with all my might
The girl from the highlands, haunts me every night