Robert Burns (1759–1796). Poems and Songs.
The Harvard Classics. 1909–14.

290 . Song—A Waukrife Minnie

WHARE are you gaun, my bonie lass,

Whare are you gaun, my hinnie?

She answered me right saucilie,

“An errand for my minnie.”

O whare live ye, my bonie lass,

O whare live ye, my hinnie?

“By yon burnside, gin ye maun ken,

In a wee house wi’ my minnie.”

But I foor up the glen at e’en.

To see my bonie lassie;

And lang before the grey morn cam,

She was na hauf sae saucie.

O weary fa’ the waukrife cock,

And the foumart lay his crawin!

He wauken’d the auld wife frae her sleep,

A wee blink or the dawin.

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.

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.