A Portrait of Robert Burns Robert Burns

1785 · Song

One Night as I Did Wander


Tune ·  John Anderson, my jo

One night as I did wander,When corn begins to shoot,I sat me down to ponderUpon 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. . . . . . .
Year
1785
Form
Song
Location
Mossgiel
Tune
John Anderson, my jo
Source
Project Gutenberg #1279 — Poems and Songs of Robert Burns