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title: "Hey, the Dusty Miller"
author: "Robert Burns"
form: "Poem"
year: "1788"
location: "Mossgiel"
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/hey-the-dusty-miller/"
---

# Hey, the Dusty Miller

## Poem
Hey, the dusty Miller,  
And his dusty coat,  
He will win a shilling,  
Or he spend a groat:  
Dusty was the coat,  
Dusty was the colour,  
Dusty was the kiss  
That I gat frae the Miller.

Hey, the dusty Miller,  
And his dusty sack;  
Leeze me on the calling  
Fills the dusty peck:  
Fills the dusty peck,  
Brings the dusty siller;  
I wad gie my coatie  
For the dusty Miller.

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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/hey-the-dusty-miller/