Lyric Scots Poems

WATERGAW
by Alison Stirling

Sleekit broon hair
She cowped me ower
Wi her lown muckle een

But the coories were cauld
So she went to the warld
And she left me alane

The muin at midnicht minds me o ma lass
Her hair siller an tousie noo
As a think o her
Unner the watergaw