I left my heart in Aberdeen,

The city by the sea,

Where stones are gray

And gulls do play

And still the shipmen feel the sway

Of boats just come from sea.

I found my love in Aberdeen;

Her heart she gave to me.

We shared a drink,

Our lips did link,

And it took us to the very brink

Of the best that love can be.

I dreamt a dream in Aberdeen

Of a land beyond the sea—

Where another lass

Might fill my glass

With a surer love that would surpass

The city by the sea.

I left it all in Aberdeen,

The city by the sea—

My former sin

And all I’d been,

My name, my clan, and all my kin,

To seek a newer me.