Aye waukin-o

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Aye waukin-o

mm-hmmm

summer’s a pleasant time
flowers of every colour
water runs o’er the heugh
and I long for my true lover

aye waukin-o
waukin still and weary
sleep I can get nane
for thinking on my dearie
aye waukin-o

when I sleep I dream
when I wake I’m eerie
sleep I can get nane
for thinking on my dearie

aye waukin-o
waukin still and weary
sleep I can get nane
for thinking of my dearie
aye waukin-o

– fiddle and flute with tune

lonely night comes on
and all the lave are sleeping
I think on my bonnie lad
and blur my eyes wi’ weeping

aye waukin-o
waukin still and weary
sleep I can get nane
for thinking on my dearie
aye waukin-o

aye waukin-o
waukin still and weary
sleep I can get nane
for thinking on my dearie
aye waukin-o

– fiddle and flute with tune

The song was originally published in the 1790 volume of The Scots musical museum (editor James Johnson), which is the origin of the title. The following text is from the Alloway manuscript, collated with the Adam manuscript and the 1790 publication:

Ay waukin O

Simmer’s a pleasant time,
  Flowers of every colour;
The water rins o’er the heugh,
  And I long for my true lover!

Ay waukin, Oh,
  Waukin still and weary:
Sleep I can get nane,
  For thinking on my Dearie.

When I sleep I dream,
  When I wauk I’m irie;
Sleep I can get nane,
  For thinking on my Dearie.

Ay waukin...

Lanely night comes on,
  A’ the lave are sleepin:
I think on my bonie lad,
  And I bleer my een wi’ greetin.

Ay waukin...

source : No. 287 in Poems and songs of Robert Burns / edited by James Kinsley. – Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1968

To amplify the comments in the explanations section, I first learned a version of this tradition from the Fairport Convention album Nine, where Dave Swarbrick sings The Hexamshire lass, another off-shot, with the same ‘sleepless’ couplet, in the verse :

of this love of mine
oh, this love I am weary
sleep I can’t get none
for thinking of my dearie