O whistle, and I’ll come to you, my lad; O whistle, and I’ll come to you, my lad: Tho’ father and mither and a’ should gae mad, O whistle, and I’ll come to you, my lad.
ATTRIBUTION:
Robert Burns (1759–1796), Scottish poet. Whistle, and I’ll Come to You, My Lad (l. 1–4).
OxBoLi. Oxford Book of Light Verse, The. W. H. Auden, ed. (1938) Oxford University Press.
