From a dear little Lancashire town a boy had sailed away
Across the briny spray to toil in U S A
When American girls gathered round and sought his company
He'd say there's only one girl for me
She's a lassie from Lancashire just a lassie from Lancashire
She's the lassie that I love dear oh so dear
Though she dresses in clogs and shawl she's the prettiest of them all
None could be fairer or rarer than Sarah my lassie from Lancashire
verse 2
Night and day of his lassie he'd dream and under love's sweet spell
He'd hear the factory bell the sound he knew so well
Home from work they would walk once again and thought in reverie
He'd say there's only one girl for me
She's a lassie from Lancashire just a lassie from Lancashire
She's the lassie that I love dear oh so dear
Though she dresses in clogs and shawl she's the prettiest of them all
None could be fairer or rarer than Sarah my lassie from Lancashire
verse 3
Day by day he kept plodding away and to his task he stuck
Till by a stroke of luck a paying vein he struck
As he wrote her to tell her that he would shortly cross the sea
He'd say there's only one girl for me
She's a lassie from Lancashire just a lassie from Lancashire
She's the lassie that I love dear oh so dear
Though she dresses in clogs and shawl she's the prettiest of them all
None could be fairer or rarer than Sarah my lassie from Lancashire