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Robert Burns (1759–1796). Poems and Songs.
The Harvard Classics. 1909–14.

368 . Song—Scroggam, my dearie

THERE was a wife wonn’d in Cockpen,

Scroggam;

She brew’d gude ale for gentlemen;

Sing auld Cowl lay ye down by me,

Scroggam, my dearie, ruffum.

The gudewife’s dochter fell in a fever,

Scroggam;

The priest o’ the parish he fell in anither;

Sing auld Cowl lay ye down by me,

Scroggam, my dearie, ruffum.

They laid the twa i’ the bed thegither,

Scroggam;

That the heat o’ the tane might cool the tither;

Sing auld Cowl, lay ye down by me,

Scroggam, my dearie, ruffum.