by Robert Burns (1759 - 1796)
Language: Scottish (Scots)
There was a wife wonn'd in Cockpen, Scroggam! She brew'd guid 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!
Composition:
- Set to music by Francis George Scott (1880 - 1958), "Scroggam", published 1936 [ baritone and piano ], from Scottish Lyrics, Book 4, no. 11, Bayley & Ferguson; confirmed with Songs of Francis George Scott, selected and edited by Neil Mackay, Roberton Publications, Aylesbury, 1980, page 87
Text Authorship:
- by Robert Burns (1759 - 1796), "Scroggam, My Dearie"
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