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Description: | A light hearted love song by Robert Burns describing how a young lady wants her sweetheart to pay her amorous attentions, but not too openly. (poem no 420)
Burns derived this song from an old fragment (in the Herd collection) as he often did, and offered it to George Thomson attached to his letter of August 1793 (letter no 578) for inclusion in his collection of Scottish Airs.
In this first page of the song Robert Burns shows the 'Come -hither' attitude of the girl to her sweetheart. However he is to approach her covertly, not approaching her directly or too publicly. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 | Publisher: | Burns Monument Trust | Temporal: | 1793-01-01 - 1793-12-31 | Source: | Burns Scotland | Identifier: | Song by Robert Burns: 'Whistle and I'll | Go to resource |
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