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Wa Willie 
Wa Willie 

1. A, wa, Willie! yer wamie rins oot, A, wa, Willie! yer wamie rins oot, Gie's a needle and threid, and a wee bittie cloot,

 To sew up the holie yer wamie rins oot. 

2. Hey bonnie lassie, yer watter rins oot, Hey bonnie lassie yer watter rins oot; Gang get me a needle, a threid and a cloot, And I'll shew up the hole where yer watter rins oot. 

(1) Rymour Club Misc. I (1906), 222, from Kirriemuir. 

(2) Coll. M.S. Kelowna, B.C., 1962; informant (aged about 72) learned it in Lanarkshire c. 1900. Tune, The Laird o' Cockpen, i.e. When she cam ben, she bobbit. Cf. a song in the Cunningham MS. (deriving from Burns' bawdy collection), as printed in Legman, The Horn Book (1964), 136: 

O wanton Willie yir wame rins out O wanton Willie &c. But ye'll get a needle an' I'll get a clout To clap on the hole that yir wame rins out. 
O wanton Willie yir wame rins out O wanton Willie &c. I'll haud up my pitcher to kep the spout That naething be tint when yir wame rins out. 
O wanton Willie yir wame rins out O wanton Willie &c. Just gie me a hotch an' I'll turn about An' cannily kep whan yir wame rins out. 
Indicated tune, Bonny Muir Hen, q.v., a version of The Tailor Fell Through the Bed, or Beware of the Ripples, the modern set of which goes to the song "Logie o' Buchan"; it is actually not unlike "The Laird o' Cockpen". 
MS