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title: "The Highland Balou"
author: "Robert Burns"
form: "Poem"
year: "1794"
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/the-highland-balou/"
---

# The Highland Balou

## Poem
Hee balou, my sweet wee Donald,  
Picture o’ the great Clanronald;  
Brawlie kens our wanton Chief  
Wha gat my young Highland thief.

Leeze me on thy bonie craigie,  
An’ thou live, thou’ll steal a naigie,  
Travel the country thro’ and thro’,  
And bring hame a Carlisle cow.

Thro’ the Lawlands, o’er the Border,  
Weel, my babie, may thou furder!  
Herry the louns o’ the laigh Countrie,  
Syne to the Highlands hame to me.

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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/the-highland-balou/