| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 9326 |
| QUOTATION: | O whistle, and I’ll come to you, my lad;
O whistle, and I’ll come to you, my lad:
Tho’ father and mither and a’ should gae mad,
O whistle, and I’ll come to you, my lad. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Robert Burns (1759–1796), Scottish poet. Whistle, and I’ll Come to You, My Lad (l. 1–4).
OxBoLi. Oxford Book of Light Verse, The. W. H. Auden, ed. (1938) Oxford University Press. |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
| WORKS: | Burns Collection. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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