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title: "One Night as I Did Wander"
author: "Robert Burns"
form: "Song"
year: "1785"
tune: "John Anderson, my jo"
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/one-night-as-i-did-wander/"
---

# One Night as I Did Wander

## Song
One night as I did wander,  
When corn begins to shoot,  
I sat me down to ponder  
Upon an auld tree root;  
Auld Ayr ran by before me,  
And bicker’d to the seas;  
A cushat crooded o’er me,  
That echoed through the braes  
. . . . . . .

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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/one-night-as-i-did-wander/