Scottish Wedding Customs

Coortin

THERE CAM A YOUNG MAN

Chorus
And wow he was a braw young lad
A brisk young lad, and a braw young lad
And wow he was a braw young lad
Came seeking me to woo

But I was baking when he came
When he came, when he came
I took him in an gaed him a scone
To thaw his frozen mou

I set him in aside the bink
I gaed him bread and ale to drink
And ne'er a blyth styme wad he blink
Until his wame was flu

Gae get ye gone, ye cauldrife woo'er
Ye sour lookin, cauldrife woo'er
I straightway showed him to the door

There lay a duck-dub before the door
Before the door, before the door
There lay a duck dub before the door
And there fell he I trow

Out came the goodman and high he shouted
Out came the goodwife and low she louted
And a the town neighbours were gathered about it
And there lay he I trow

Ye came to woo but ye're a beguiled
Ye ave fa'en i the dirt and ye're a befyld
We'll hae nae mair of you.

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