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title: "Willie Brew’d a Peck o’ Maut"
author: "Robert Burns"
form: "Song"
year: "1789"
location: "Ellisland"
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/willie-brewd-a-peck-o-maut/"
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# Willie Brew’d a Peck o’ Maut

## Song
O Willie brew’d a peck o’ maut,  
And Rob and Allen cam to see;  
Three blyther hearts, that lee-lang night,  
Ye wadna found in Christendie.

*Chorus*  
We are na fou, we’re nae that fou,  
But just a drappie in our ee;  
The cock may craw, the day may daw  
And aye we’ll taste the barley bree.

Here are we met, three merry boys,  
Three merry boys I trow are we;  
And mony a night we’ve merry been,  
And mony mae we hope to be!

*Chorus*  
We are na fou, we’re nae that fou,  
But just a drappie in our ee;  
The cock may craw, the day may daw  
And aye we’ll taste the barley bree.

It is the moon, I ken her horn,  
That’s blinkin’ in the lift sae hie;  
She shines sae bright to wyle us hame,  
But, by my sooth, she’ll wait a wee!

*Chorus*  
We are na fou, we’re nae that fou,  
But just a drappie in our ee;  
The cock may craw, the day may daw  
And aye we’ll taste the barley bree.

Wha first shall rise to gang awa,  
A cuckold, coward loun is he!  
Wha first beside his chair shall fa’,  
He is the King amang us three.

*Chorus*  
We are na fou, we’re nae that fou,  
But just a drappie in our ee;  
The cock may craw, the day may daw  
And aye we’ll taste the barley bree.

## Footnotes
1. Willie is Nicol, Allan is Masterton the writing— master. The scene is between Moffat and the head of the Loch of the Lowes. Date, August—September, 1789.—Lang.

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Source: [Project Gutenberg #1279 — Poems and Songs of Robert Burns](https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1279/pg1279.txt)  
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