by Robert Burns (1759 - 1796)
Ay waking, O!
Language: Scottish (Scots)
CHORUS Ay waukin, O, Waukin still and weary: Sleep I can get nane For thinking on my dearie. Simmer 's a pleasant time: Flowers of every colour, The water rins owre the lieugh, And I long for my true lover. When I sleep I dream, When I wank I 'm eerie, Sleep I can get nane For thinkin on my dearie. Lanely night comes on, A' the lave are sleepin, I think on my bonie lad. And I bleer my een wi' greetin. CHORUS Ay waukin, O, Waukin still and weary: Sleep I can get nane For thinking on my dearie
Confirmed with The Complete Poetical Works of Robert Burns, Cambridge edition, Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1897, page 217.
Researcher for this text: Pierre Mathé [Guest Editor]
See also this anonymous poem.
Authorship
- by Robert Burns (1759 - 1796), "Ay waking, O!" [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
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