The Merry Muses of Caledonia/There Cam' a Cadger

by Robert Burns

THERE CAM' A CADGER.

Tune—"Clout the Cauldron."

An old fragment.

 
There cam' a cadger out o' Fife,
⁠I wat na how they ca'd him;
He play'd a trick to our gudewife,
⁠When fient a body bad him.
 
⁠Fal lal. &c.

He took a lang thing stout and strang,
⁠An' strack it at her gyvel;
An' aye she swore she fand the thing
⁠Gae borin' by her nyvel.

⁠Fal lal, &c.