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MY AULD MAN.
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This is an old song brushed up by Burns. The air appears
in Mrs Crockat's Manuscript, 1709, and it was published in
Oswald's Pocket Companion. Cockpen is an estate now belonging
to the Earl of Dalhousie, in the parish of the same name,
Edinburghshire.
An admirable song, under the title of The Laird of Cockpen,
was written to the same tune by Lady Nairn, and has very much
assisted in throwing these old verses out of notice.
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when will ye die, my auld man?
In the land of Fife there lived a wicked wife,
And in the town of Cupar then,
Who sorely did lament, and made her complaint,
Oh when will ye die, my auld man ?
In cam her cousin Kate, when it was growing late,
She said, What 's guid for an auld man ?
wheit-breid and wine, and a kinnen new slain ;
That 's guid for an auld man.