---
title: "O Aye My Wife She Dang Me"
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/o-aye-my-wife-she-dang-me/"
---

# O Aye My Wife She Dang Me

## Poem
*Chorus*  
O aye my wife she dang me,  
An’ aft my wife she bang’d me,  
If ye gie a woman a’ her will,  
Gude faith! she’ll soon o’er-gang ye.

On peace an’ rest my mind was bent,  
And, fool I was! I married;  
But never honest man’s intent  
Sane cursedly miscarried.

*Chorus*  
O aye my wife she dang me,  
An’ aft my wife she bang’d me,  
If ye gie a woman a’ her will,  
Gude faith! she’ll soon o’er-gang ye.

Some sairie comfort at the last,  
When a’ thir days are done, man,  
My pains o’ hell on earth is past,  
I’m sure o’ bliss aboon, man,

*Chorus*  
O aye my wife she dang me,  
An’ aft my wife she bang’d me,  
If ye gie a woman a’ her will,  
Gude faith! she’ll soon o’er-gang ye.

---

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/o-aye-my-wife-she-dang-me/