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.