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title: "The Mauchline Lady"
author: "Robert Burns"
form: "Song"
year: "1784"
tune: "I had a horse, I had nae mair"
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/the-mauchline-lady/"
---

# The Mauchline Lady

## Song
When first I came to Stewart Kyle,  
My mind it was na steady;  
Where’er I gaed, where’er I rade,  
A mistress still I had aye.

But when I came roun’ by Mauchline toun,  
Not dreadin anybody,  
My heart was caught, before I thought,  
And by a Mauchline lady.

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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-mauchline-lady/