The poem (song) is by Scotland’s most famous poet, Robert Burns and refers to a girl crossing an unbridged river to meet a lover. The fact that she was wet from the crossing would lead others to know where she had been and to speculate on why she was there.
My mother used to sing a song that had the words “coming through the rye” in it. It comes from a poem by Robbie Burns called Coming Through The Rye.
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