Songs of Robert Burns/There's cauld kail in Aberdeen

Songs of Robert Burns ~ There's cauld kail in Aberdeen James C. Dick

No. 225. From "The Songs by Robert Burns". A Study in Tone-Poetry. Published by Henry Frowde. London, Edinburgh, Glasgow, and New York 1903. Source: «traditionalmusic»

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Page 201. IV. CONNUBIAL

No. 225. There's cauld kail in Aberdeens.

Tune: Cauld kail Scots Musical Museum, 1788, No. 162.

* * * There's cauld kail in Aberdeen, And castocks in Strathbogie, When ilka lad maun hae his lass, Then fye, gie me my coggie. Chorus. My coggie, Sirs, my coggie, Sirs, I cannot want tny coggie: I wadna gie my three-girr'd cap, For ier a quean on Bogie. There's Johnie Smith has got a wife That scrimps him o' his coggie, If she were mine, upon my life I wad douk her in a bogie.

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Page 431. HISTORICAL NOTES

• No. 225. There's cauld kail in Aberdeen. The two stanzas and chorus in the text are in the Interleaved Museum where Burns states they are ' the old verses.' They are not found elsewhere, and he doubtless mended them. For an account of the tune Cauld Kail, see notes to Nos. 102 and 104.

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