Waitin' for My Dearie-Brigadoon Ensemble/Marion Bell

[ti:Waitin' for My Dearie (from 'Brigadoon')] [ar:Musical Cast Recording] [al:Brigadoon] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Waitin' for My Dearie (from 'Brigadoon') - Brigadoon Ensemble/Marion Bell [00:11.35]Many a lassie as everyone knows'll [00:15.05]Try to be married before twenty five [00:19.69]So she'll agree to most any proposal [00:23.84]All he must be is a man an' alive [00:29.18]I hold a dream an' there's no compromisin' [00:33.33]I know there's one certain laddie for me [00:37.75] [00:38.28]One day he'll come walkin' o'er the horizon [00:42.66]But should he not then an old maid I'll be [00:49.15]Foolish ye may say [00:52.89] [00:53.56]Foolish I will stay [00:58.41] [00:59.67]Waitin' for my dearie an' happy am I [01:05.52] [01:06.33]To hold my heart till he comes strollin' by [01:11.29] [01:13.90]When he comes my dearie one look an' I'll know [01:20.24]That he's the dearie I've been wantin' so [01:26.01] [01:27.45]Though I'll live forty lives till the day he arrives [01:32.53]I'll not ever ever grieve [01:36.69]For my hopes will be high that he'll come strollin' by [01:41.09] [01:41.63]For ye see I believe [01:47.63]That there's a laddie weary and wanderin' free [01:55.31]Who's waitin' for his dearie me [02:01.73] [02:02.50]What do ye do while ye're waitin' around [02:05.26]For your lad to come your way [02:08.07] [02:08.77]Well when no one is lookin' [02:10.64]Ye kneel on the ground [02:12.49]An' ye pray an' pray an' pray [02:16.24] [02:16.97]But when lassies sit an' have no men [02:20.36]Oh how long becomes the night [02:24.14]But I fear the night is longer [02:27.11]When the lad's no' right [02:33.94] [02:35.00]Waitin' for my dearie is sweeter to me [02:40.72] [02:41.31]Than wooin' any laddie on the lea [02:47.08] [02:49.24]Dreamin' of your dearie an' idlin' the day [02:54.82] [02:55.49]That's how I am [02:56.98]An' how I'll ever stay [03:01.37] [03:02.34]Though I'll live forty lives till the day he arrives [03:08.07]I'll not ever ever grieve [03:12.06]For my hopes will be high that he'll come strollin' by [03:17.45]For ye see I believe [03:23.36]That there's a laddie weary an' wanderin' free [03:30.92]Who's waitin' for his dearie me