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title: "Dainty Davie"
author: "Robert Burns"
form: "Poem"
year: "1793"
location: "Dumfries"
source: "Project Gutenberg #1279 — Poems and Songs of Robert Burns"
source_url: "https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1279/pg1279.txt"
canonical_url: "https://robert-burns.com/poems/dainty-davie/"
---

# Dainty Davie

## Poem
Now rosy May comes in wi’ flowers,  
To deck her gay, green-spreading bowers;  
And now comes in the happy hours,  
To wander wi’ my Davie.

*Chorus*  
Meet me on the warlock knowe,  
Dainty Davie, Dainty Davie;  
There I’ll spend the day wi’ you,  
My ain dear Dainty Davie.

The crystal waters round us fa’,  
The merry birds are lovers a’,  
The scented breezes round us blaw,  
A wandering wi’ my Davie.

*Chorus*  
Meet me on the warlock knowe,  
Dainty Davie, Dainty Davie;  
There I’ll spend the day wi’ you,  
My ain dear Dainty Davie.

As purple morning starts the hare,  
To steal upon her early fare,  
Then thro’ the dews I will repair,  
To meet my faithfu’ Davie.

*Chorus*  
Meet me on the warlock knowe,  
Dainty Davie, Dainty Davie;  
There I’ll spend the day wi’ you,  
My ain dear Dainty Davie.

When day, expiring in the west,  
The curtain draws o’ Nature’s rest,  
I flee to his arms I loe’ the best,  
And that’s my ain dear Davie.

*Chorus*  
Meet me on the warlock knowe,  
Dainty Davie, Dainty Davie;  
There I’ll spend the day wi’ you,  
My ain dear Dainty Davie.

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Source: [Project Gutenberg #1279 — Poems and Songs of Robert Burns](https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1279/pg1279.txt)  
Canonical HTML: https://robert-burns.com/poems/dainty-davie/