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Wee Willie Winkie

"Wee Willie Winkie" is a Scottish nursery rhyme whose protagonist has become popular as a personification of sleep. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 13711.

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on a house in Edinburgh. The pin was scraped up and down to make a rattling sound, announcing a visitor's presence Original text of 1841 in Scots, alongside a paraphrased English version (from 1844): == Origins and meaning ==
Origins and meaning
The poem was written by William Miller (1810–1872), first printed in Whistle-binkie: Stories for the Fireside in 1841 and re-printed in Whistle-Binkie; a Collection of Songs for the Social Circle published in 1873. but it seems likely that Miller was simply using the name rather than writing a Jacobite satire. and Billy Winker in Lancashire. ==Notes==
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