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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 page the young lady advises her sweetheart to protest her interest in her though he might concede her good looks. However he must not pay attention to another woman in case he is enticed away. | 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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