Oh! where, tell me where, is your Highland laddie gone? Oh! where, tell me where is your Highland laddie gone? "He's gone with streaming banners where noble deeds are done, And my sad heart will tremble till he come safely home, He's gone with streaming banners where noble deeds are done, And my sad heart will tremble till he come safely home." Oh! where, tell me where, did your Highland laddie stay? Oh! where, tell me where, did your Highland laddie stay? "He dwelt among the holly trees, beside the rapid Spey, And many a blessing followed him the day he went away, He dwelt beneath the holly trees, beside the river Spey, And many a blessing followed him the day he went away." Oh! what, tell me what, does your Highland laddie wear? Oh! what, tell me what, does your Highland laddie wear? "A bonnet with a lofty plume, the gallant badge of war, And a plaid across the manly breast, that yet shall wear a star, A bonnet with a lofty plume, the gallant badge of war, And a plaid across the manly breast, that yet shall wear a star." Suppose, ah, suppose, that some cruel, cruel wound Should pierce your Highland laddie, and all your hopes confound; "The pipe would play a cheering march, the banners round him fly, And for his king and country dear, with pleasure would he die, The pipe would play a cheering march, the banners round him fly, And for his king and country dear, with pleasure would he die. "But I will hope to see him yet in Scotland's bonnie bounds, But I will hope to see him yet in Scotland's bonnie bounds; His native land of liberty shall nurse his glorious wounds, While wide through all our Highland hills his war-like name resounds, His native land of liberty shall nurse his glorious wounds, While wide through all our Highland hills his war-like name resounds." --_Annie McVicar Grant._ The father of Annie McVicar was an officer in the British army and was transferred to this country for service in the American Colonies in 1757. When he left the old country with his troops his little daughter was but two years old. Soon after he went away the little girl wandered from home one day, greatly to the alarm of her family. She was overtaken by a friend, and when asked where she was going said, "I am going to America to see papa."