Waitin' For My Dearie

This is a beautiful song, from the musical "Brigadoon". I couldn't find the original song anywhere online, so I'll have to be content with just posting the lyrics. :)

FIONA:
Many a lassie as ev'ryone knows'll
Try to be married before twenty-five.
So she'll agree to 'most any proposal.
All he mus' be is a man, an' alive.
I hold a dream an' there's no compromisin'
I know there's one certain laddie for me.
One day he'll come walkin' o'er the horizon:
But should he not, then an old maid I'll be.
Foolish, ye may say.
Foolish I will stay.
Waitin' for my dearie, an' happy am I
to hold my heart till he comes strollin' by.
When he comes, my dearie, one look an' I'll know
That he's the dearie I've been wantin' so.
Though I live forty lives till the day he arrives,
I'll not ever, ever grieve.
For my hopes will be high that he'll come strollin' by;
For ye see, I believe
That there's a laddie weary, and wanderin' free,
Who's waitin' for his dearie:
Me!

1ST GIRL:
What do ye do while ye're waitin' around
For your lad to come your way?

FIONA:
Well, when no one is lookin', ye kneel on the ground,
An' ye pray an' pray an' pray!

2ND GIRL:
But when lassies sit an' have no men,
Oh, how long becomes the night.

FIONA:
But I fear the night is longer when the lad's no' right.
Waitin' for my dearie is sweeter to me
Than wooin' any laddie on the lea.

GIRLS:
Dreamin' of your dearie, an' idlin' the day

FIONA:
That's how I am an' how I'll ever stay.
Though I live forty lives till the day he arrives,
I'll not ever, ever grieve.
For my hopes will be high that he'll come strollin' by;
For ye see, I believe

FIONA AND GIRLS:
That there's a laddie weary, an' wanderin' free,
who's waitin' for his dearie:

FIONA:
Me!