Robert Burns (1759–1796). Poems and Songs.
The Harvard Classics. 1909–14. |
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| 290. Song—A Waukrife Minnie |
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| WHARE are you gaun, my bonie lass, | |
| Whare are you gaun, my hinnie? | |
| She answered me right saucilie, | |
| “An errand for my minnie.” | |
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| O whare live ye, my bonie lass, | 5 |
| O whare live ye, my hinnie? | |
| “By yon burnside, gin ye maun ken, | |
| In a wee house wi’ my minnie.” | |
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| But I foor up the glen at e’en. | |
| To see my bonie lassie; | 10 |
| And lang before the grey morn cam, | |
| She was na hauf sae saucie. | |
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| O weary fa’ the waukrife cock, | |
| And the foumart lay his crawin! | |
| He wauken’d the auld wife frae her sleep, | 15 |
| A wee blink or the dawin. | |
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| An angry wife I wat she raise, | |
| And o’er the bed she brocht her; | |
| And wi’ a meikle hazel rung | |
| She made her a weel-pay’d dochter. | 20 |
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| O fare thee weel, my bonie lass, | |
| O fare thee well, my hinnie! | |
| Thou art a gay an’ a bonnie lass, | |
| But thou has a waukrife minnie. | |
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