2
'O what did ye get at your step-mother's, my bonnie wee croodlin dow?' [Twice.]
'I gat a wee wee fishie; oh mak my bed, mammie, now!' [Twice.]
3
'O whare gat she the wee fishie, my bonnie wee croodlin dow?'
'In a dub before the door; oh mak my bed, mammie, now!'
4
'What did ye wi the wee fishie, my bonnie wee croodlin dow?'
'I boild it in a wee pannie; oh mak my bed, mammy, now!'
5
'Wha gied ye the banes o the fishie till, my bonnie wee croodlin dow?'
'I gied them till a wee doggie; oh mak my bed, mammie, now!'
6
'O whare is the little wee doggie, my bonnie wee croodlin dow?
O whare is the little wee doggie, my bonnie wee croodlin doo?'
'It shot out its fit and died, and sae maun I do too;
Oh mak my bed, mammy, now, now, oh mak my bed, mammy, now!'
K.
a. Chambers' Scottish Ballads, p. 324. b. Chambers' Popular Rhymes of Scotland, 1842, p. 53. c. The Stenhouse-Laing ed. of Johnson's Museum, IV, 364*, communicated by Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe.
1
'O whaur hae ye been a' the day, my little wee croodlin doo?'
'O I 've been at my grandmother's; mak my bed, mammie, now!'
2
'O what gat ye at your grandmother's, my little wee croodlin doo?'
'I got a bonnie wee fishie; mak my bed, mammie, now!'
3
'O whaur did she catch the fishie, my bonnie wee croodlin doo?'
'She catchd it in the gutter hole: mak my bed, mammie, now!'