SCROGGAM, MY DEARIE_POEMS AND SONGS BY ROBERT BURNS

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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 them side by side thegither, Scroggam;

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

Sing auld Cowl, lay ye down by me,

  Scroggam, my dearie, ruffum.

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