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Songs and Lyrics of Robert Burns

by Robert Burns

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Willie Brewed

O Willie brew’d a peck o’ maut,
  And Rob and Allan cam to see;
Three blyther hearts, that lee-lang night,
  Ye wad na found in Christendie.

We are na fou’, we’re no that fou,
  But just a drappie in our e’e;
The cock may craw, the day may daw,
  And aye we’ll taste the barley bree!

Here are we met, three merry boys,
  Three merry boys, I trow, are we;
And mony a night we’ve merry been,
  And mony mae we hope to be!

It is the moon, I ken her horn,
  That’s blinkin’ in the lift sae hie;
She shines sae bright to wyle us hame,
  But, by my sooth! she’ll wait a wee.

Wha first shall rise to gang awa,
  A cuckold, coward loun is he!
Wha first beside his chair shall fa’,
  He is the King among us three!

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