013 Ay Waukin, O

Tune: Ay Waukin, O

Chorus

Ay waukin, O,

Waukin still and weary:

Sleep I can get nane

For thinking on my dearie.

1．

Simmer's a pleasant time:

Flowers of every colour,

The water rins owre the heugh,

And I long for my true lover.

2．

When I sleep I dream,

When I wauk I'm eerie,

Sleep I can get nane

For thinking on my dearie.

3．

Lanely night comes on,

A' the lave are sleepin,

I think on my bonie lad,

And I bleer my een wi' greetin.

Notes

Title Ay Waukin, O: Always Awake, Oh

This poem, first printed on 2nd February, 1790, is deceptively simple, but is quite moving in expressing the love-laden girl's torment at missing the young lad she loved. It is adapted from an original song.

Chorus

Line 3 nane: none

Line 4 dearie: lovely and dear person, now sometimes called “baby”

Stanza 1

Line 3 rins owre the heugh: runs over the cliff

Stanza 2

Line 2 wauk: wake; eerie: restless

Stanza 3

Line 1 Lanely: lonely

Line 2 A' the lave: All the rest / remainder; sleepin: sleeping

Line 4 bleer my een wi' greetin: blur my eyes with weeping

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