The Book of Scottish Song/Donald Couper
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Donald Couper.
[The tune called "Donald Couper" is very old, and it can be traced back at least as far as the middle of the 17th century. The following words from Johnson's Musical Museum, Part IV., 1792, appear a mere fragment.]
Hey, Donald, howe Donald,
Hey Donald Couper!
He's gane awa' to seek a wife,
And he's come hame without her.
O Donald Couper and his man
Held to a Highland fair, man;
And a' to seek a bonnie lass—
But fient a ane was there, man.
At length he get a carlin gray,
And she's come hirplin' hame, man;
And she's fawn ower the buffet stool,
And brak' her rumple-bane, man.