[Verse 1]I walked out from Inverness in the fall of '23With a dream for America my homeMy pretty blue eyed Bonnie made every step with meScared to death and shivering from the cold[Pre-Chorus]Well I promised that I'd send for her in just a little whileKissed her on the cheek and said 'sail across the miles'[Chorus]She was standing on the shore waving goodbyeMissed her love forever more with a tear drop in her eyeWell twenty years have come and goneAnd I've tried with all my mightThe girl from the highlands haunts me every night[Verse 2]To the busy streets of Boston in the year '25Word had come from across the ocean wideThat winter in the highlands, fever spread like fireAnd my pretty blue eyed Bonnie, she had died[Pre-Chorus]Well the guilt will live inside me till I'm drawing my last breathI never shoulda left her that day in Inverness[Chorus]She was standing on the shore waving goodbyeMissed her love forever more with a tear drop in her eyeWell twenty years have come and goneAnd I've tried with all my mightThe girl from the highlands haunts me every night[Bridge]She lives within the shadowsThat fall upon the wallsShe walks through my dreamsUntil the morning calls[Chorus]She was standing on the shore waving goodbyeMissed her love forever more with a tear drop in her eyeOh, twenty years have come and goneAnd I've tried with all my mightThe girl from the highlands haunts me every night
