Waitin' for My Dearie (From "Brigadoon")-Shirley Jones

[ti:Waitin' for My Dearie] [ar:Shirley Jones] [al:Then & Now] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Waitin' for My Dearie (From "Brigadoon") (from "Brigadoon") - Shirley Jones [00:13.14]Many a lassie as everyone knows'll [00:17.55]Try to be married before twenty-five [00:21.90] [00:22.86]So she'll agree to most any proposal [00:27.02] [00:27.72]All he mus' be is a man [00:31.41]An' alive [00:33.15] [00:34.30]I hold a dream an' there's [00:37.32]No compromisin' [00:38.57] [00:39.12]I know there's one certain laddie for me [00:43.90] [00:44.58]One day he'll come walking [00:46.92]Over the horizon [00:48.64] [00:49.61]But should he not [00:51.92]Then an old maid I'll be [00:56.91] [00:57.96]Foolish ye may say [01:03.41] [01:04.99]Foolish I will stay [01:11.70] [01:13.85]Waitin' for my dearie [01:17.40]An' happy am I [01:20.36] [01:21.38]To hold my heart till he comes strollin' by [01:27.70] [01:30.00]When he comes my dearie [01:33.42]One look an' I'll know [01:37.38]That he's the dearie [01:39.75]I've been wantin' so [01:43.60] [01:45.56]Though I'll live forty lives [01:47.54]Till the day he arrives [01:49.84]I'll not ever ever grieve [01:53.69]For my hopes will be high [01:56.08]That he'll come strollin' by; [01:58.46] [01:59.64]For ye see I believe [02:06.75]That there's a laddie weary [02:11.14]And wanderin' free [02:14.11] [02:15.03]Who's waitin' for his dearie: [02:19.06] [02:20.47]Me [02:24.22] [02:27.00]What do ye do while [02:29.03]Ye're waitin' around [02:30.63]For your lad to come your way [02:34.37] [02:35.08]Well when no one is lookin' [02:37.18]Ye kneel on the ground [02:39.01]An' ye pray an' pray an' pray [02:43.33]But when lassies sit an' have no men [02:47.23]Oh how long becomes the night [02:50.65] [02:51.22]But I fear the night is longer [02:54.39]When the lad's no' right [02:59.96] [03:02.57]Waitin' for my dearie is sweeter to me [03:09.05] [03:10.09]Than wooin' any laddie on the lea [03:16.04] [03:19.07]Dreamin' of your dearie [03:22.44]An' idlin' the day [03:25.51] [03:26.38]That's how I am an' [03:28.87]How I'll ever stay [03:32.35] [03:34.54]Though I'll live forty lives [03:36.74]Till the day he arrives [03:39.13]I'll not ever ever grieve [03:43.51]For my hopes will be high [03:46.02]That he'll come strollin' by; [03:48.36] [03:49.29]For ye see I believe [03:55.91] [03:58.00]That there's a laddie weary [04:02.71]An' wanderin' free [04:06.44] [04:07.20]Who's waitin' for his dearie [04:11.04] [04:12.77]Me