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