Poems and Songs of R Scroggam, My Dearie

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.