---
title: "My Wife’s a Winsome Wee Thing"
subtitle: "Air—“My Wife’s a Wanton Wee Thing.”"
author: "Robert Burns"
form: "Poem"
year: "1792"
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/my-wifes-a-winsome-wee-thing/"
---

# My Wife’s a Winsome Wee Thing

### Air—“My Wife’s a Wanton Wee Thing.”

## Poem
*Chorus*  
She is a winsome wee thing,  
She is a handsome wee thing,  
She is a lo’esome wee thing,  
This dear wee wife o’ mine.

I never saw a fairer,  
I never lo’ed a dearer,  
And neist my heart I’ll wear her,  
For fear my jewel tine,

*Chorus*  
She is a winsome wee thing,  
She is a handsome wee thing,  
She is a lo’esome wee thing,  
This dear wee wife o’ mine.

The warld’s wrack we share o’t;  
The warstle and the care o’t;  
Wi’ her I’ll blythely bear it,  
And think my lot divine.

*Chorus*  
She is a winsome wee thing,  
She is a handsome wee thing,  
She is a lo’esome wee thing,  
This dear wee wife o’ mine.

---

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/my-wifes-a-winsome-wee-thing/