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Song—Crowdie ever mair

by Robert Burns, 1795

O that i had ne'er been married,
  I wad never had nae care,
Now I've gotten wife an' weans,
  An' they cry "Crowdie" evermair.

Chorus.—ance crowdie, twice crowdie,
  Three times crowdie in a day
Gin ye crowdie ony mair,
  Ye'll crowdie a' my meal away.

Waefu' Want and Hunger fley me,
  Glowrin' by the hallan en';
Sair i fecht them at the door,
  But aye I'm eerie they come ben.
            Ance crowdie, &c.

Published in Poems and Songs of Robert Burns
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