II.
He sought them out, he sought them in,
Wi’, deil hae her! and, deil hae him!
But the body was sae doited and blin’,
He wist na where he was gaun, O.
III.
They cooper’d at e’en, they cooper’d at morn,
’Till our gude-man has gotten the scorn;
On ilka brow she’s planted a horn,
And swears that they shall stan’, O.
We’ll hide the cooper behind the door,
Behind the door, behind the door;
We’ll hide the cooper behind the door,
And cover him under a mawn, O.
CLVII.
SOMEBODY.
Tune—“For the sake of somebody.”
[Burns seems to have borrowed two or three lines of this lyric from Ramsay: he sent it to the Museum.]
I.