"The winds are strang, and the nights are lang,

And the ways are sair to ride:

And I maun gang to wreak my wrang,

And ye maun bide and bide."

In, in, out and in,

Blaws the wind and whirls the whin.

"Gin I maun bide and bide, Willie,

I wot my weird is sair:

Weel may ye get ye a light love yet,

But never a mither mair."