Chorus.
My coggie, Sirs, my coggie, Sirs,
I cannot want my coggie;
I wadna gie my three-girr’d cap
For e’er a quene on Bogie.—
There’s Johnie Smith has got a wife,
That scrimps him o’ his coggie,
If she were mine, upon my life
I wad douk her in a bogie.”
FOR LAKE OF GOLD.
The country girls in Ayrshire, instead of the line—
“She me forsook for a great duke,”
say
“For Athole’s duke she me forsook;”
which I take to be the original reading.