by Robert Burns (1759 - 1796)
There was a wife wonn'd in Cockpen,...
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!
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Confirmed with The Complete Poems and Songs of Robert Burns, edited by James Barke with an Introduction by John Cairney, HarperCollins, Glasgow, 1995, page 601
Authorship
- by Robert Burns (1759 - 1796), "Scroggam, My Dearie" [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)
- 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 [ sung text checked 1 time]
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This text was added to the website: 2018-11-27
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