| Central - LAL |
| Bessie | , my ain! - I dinna think it, |
| Orkney - ORK |
at pat me in this Hole. Come, | Bessie | , lay yir heed in me lap and l |
| Orkney - ORK |
Tell me aal about him, | Bessie | o Gyre. |
| Orkney - ORK |
the sea an capered aboot an, | Bessie | , the sea sparkled like gless. |
| Orkney - ORK |
I heard the yells, | Bessie | , an kent me work wis complete |
| Orkney - ORK |
And noo, here I am wae you, | Bessie | , in God's hoose - in Marwick |
| Doric - MNA |
'Bella', she thundert, in a | bessie | -like wey, that gart Andra lou |
| Doric - DOR |
er there’s a Billy boy or a | Bessie | cat, ilka day she’ll daunde |
| Southern - SEA |
id towartis the wa; sayin tae | Bessie | Bryden, James Walter Brydon†|
| Central - LAL | I also loe the tune o Bonnie | Bessie | Logan but the ideas a bittie |
| Central - SEC |
t Steamie. He kent his Auntie | Bessie | yaised the public washhous in |
| Central - LAL | ould “tell Andrew his auntie | Bessie | ’s cousin’s neighbour’s son |
| Central - DUN |
They ca’ me | Bessie | an a’m fifteen. A’ve nae |
| Orkney - ORK |
Maggie A'm | Bessie | o Gyre fae across the loch. |
| Doric - ABN |
a bit o girse tae play on. An | Bessie | wi her club fittie an a', min |
| Central - LAL |
Whan | Bessie | lats me ken she's fash't wi m |
| Orkney - ORK |
Jane Gibbon tae set a poem o | Bessie | Skea's tae music tae weave th |
| Central - DUN |
uld get to see the future too | Bessie | . One day, all houses will hav |
| Central - AYR |
t, in the spring o 1694, puir | Bessie | Beg lost her man. Lowsin his |
| Orkney - ORK |
Granny? Whar's | Bessie | geen? |