I am a young man from the town of Kiandra
I married a young woman to comfort me home
She goes out and she leaves me she cruelly deceives me
She leaves me with a baby that's none of me own

Oh, dear rue the day ever I married
How I wish I were single again
With this weeping and wailing and rocking the cradle
And rocking the baby that's none of me own

While I am at work me wife's on the ran dan
On the ran dan with some other young man
And the innocent laddie will soon call me daddy
But little he knows that he's none of me own.

So come all you young men with a fancy to marry
Be sure that you leave those flash girls alone
For by the lord Harry if one you should marry
They'll leave you with a baby and swear it's your own