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title: "News, Lassies, News"
author: "Robert Burns"
form: "Poem"
year: "1795"
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/news-lassies-news/"
---

# News, Lassies, News

## Poem
There’s news, lassies, news,  
Gude news I’ve to tell!  
There’s a boatfu’ o’ lads  
Come to our town to sell.

*Chorus*  
The wean wants a cradle,  
And the cradle wants a cod:  
I’ll no gang to my bed,  
Until I get a nod.

Father, quo’ she, Mither, quo she,  
Do what you can,  
I’ll no gang to my bed,  
Until I get a man.

*Chorus*  
The wean wants a cradle,  
And the cradle wants a cod:  
I’ll no gang to my bed,  
Until I get a nod.

I hae as gude a craft rig  
As made o’yird and stane;  
And waly fa’ the ley-crap,  
For I maun till’d again.

*Chorus*  
The wean wants a cradle,  
And the cradle wants a cod:  
I’ll no gang to my bed,  
Until I get a nod.

---

Source: [Project Gutenberg #1279 — Poems and Songs of Robert Burns](https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1279/pg1279.txt)  
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