I Gaed a Waefu' Gate Yestreen

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I Gaed a Waefu' Gate Yestreen
Robert Burns

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'Written by Burns in 1789 for the Museum. The subject of the song was a daughter of the Rev. Mr. Jeffrey of Lochmaben, now Mrs. Renwick of New York. The air was composed by Robert Riddle of Glenriddle, Esq., and called "The blue-eyed lassie."' —Alexander Whitelaw, The Book of Scottish Song (1843)

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Versions of I Gaed a Waefu' Gate Yestreen include:

"I gaed a waefu' gate yestreen" in Fairfa' the lasses (1816-1820)
"I Gaed a Waefu Gate Yestreen" in Answer to the blue bonnet, &c (c.1820)
"I gaed a waefu' gate yestreen" in Seven favourite songs (1820-1837)
"The blue-eyed lassie" in Dainty Davie (1823)
"I gaed a waefu' gate yestreen" in Ellen More (1824)
"I gaed a waefu' gate yestreen" in Twa weavers (1825)
"I Gaed a Waefu' Gate Yestreen" in Nine popular songs (1840-1850)
"I Gaed a waefu' Gate Yestreen" in The Sentimental Songster (1840-1850)
"I Gaed a waefu' Gate Yestreen" in Seraphim (1840-1850)
"I gaed a waefu' gate yestreen" in The Singers' companion (1840-1850)
"I gaed a waefu' gate" in The Book of Scottish Song (1843)
"The Blue-Eyed Lassie" in The Hundred Best Poems (lyrical) in the English language, second series (1904)