[Chorus]
On the banks of red roses my love and I sat doon
He took oot his charm box to play his love a tune
In the middle o the tune she sighed and she said
“O my Johnny, lovely Johnny dinnae leave me!”

[Verse 1]
When I was a wee thing an easy led astray
Before I would work I would raither sport and play
Before I would work I would raither sport and play
Wi my Johnny on the banks of red roses

[Chorus]
On the banks of red roses my love and I sat doon
He took oot his charm box to play his love a tune
In the middle o the tune shе sighed and she said
“O my Johnny, lovely Johnny dinnaе leave me!”

[Verse 2]
He took oot his charm box an played his love a tune
In the middle o the tune his love broke doon and cried
In the middle o the tune his love broke doon and cried
“O my Johnny, O my Johnny dinnae leave me!”

[Verse 3]
Johnny met his true love and they went for a walk
He took oot a wee pen knife, it be a lang and sharp
And had pierced it through and through the bonny lassie's hart
And he's left her lying there among the roses
[Chorus]
On the banks of red roses my love and I sat doon
He took oot his charm box to play his love a tune
In the middle o the tune she sighed and she said
“O my Johnny, lovely Johnny dinnae leave me!”

[Chorus]
On the banks of red roses my love and I sat doon
He took oot his charm box to play his love a tune
In the middle o the tune she sighed and she said
“O my Johnny, lovely Johnny dinnae leave me!”