Whare are you gaun, my bonie la**,
Whare are you gaun, my hinnie?
She answered me right saucilie,
"An errand for my minnie."
O whare live ye, my bonie la**,
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 la**ie;
And lang before the grey morn cam,
She was na hauf sae saucie.
O weary fa' the waukrife co*k,
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 la**,
O fare thee well, my hinnie!
Thou art a gay an' a bonnie la**,
But thou has a waukrife minnie.