It's not by Burns. I'M A' DOON FOR LACK O' JOHNNIE In G. F. Graham, Wood's Songs of Scotland (1850), II.136 (+ music). [First publication of words and music; communicated by Finlay Dun as known and sung in the North of Scotland. GFG has no doubt both are modern.] Tune used in some sources, e.g. John Greig's Scots Minstrelsie for Burns' "What will I do gin my Hoggie die?" ; also Jean Redpath's "Auld Kilpatrick Hills". The most well-known use of the tune is in the slow movement of Max Bruch's Scottish Fantasy. Words as per GFG: I'm a' doun, doun, doun,
I'm doun for lack o' Johnnie;
I'm a' doun, doun, doun,
I'm doun for lack o' Johnnie.
Gin Johnnie kent I was na weel,
I'm sure he would come to me;
But oh! gin he's forsaken me,
Och hone! what will come o' me!
[Repeat 1-4.] I sit upon an auld feal-sunk,
I spin and greet for Johnnie;
But gin he's gien me the begunk,
Och hone! what will come o' me!
Gloss: feal-sunk = a seat made of turf; to gie the begunk = to deceive.