The Merry Muses of Caledonia/Our Gudewife's sae Modest

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The Merry Muses of Caledonia by Robert Burns Our Gudewife's sae Modest

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OUR GUDEWIFE'S SAE MODEST.

Tune—"John Anderson, my jo."

This is an old fragment.

Our gudewife's sae modest.  When she is set at meat, A laverock's leg, or a tittling's wing,  Is mair than she can eat; But, when she's in her bed at e'en,  Between me and the wa'; She is a glutton deevil.  She swallows c—ds and a'.