The Croodin Doo
LORD RANDAL—M
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Popular Rhymes of Scotland, 1870, p. 51. “Mrs Lockhart's
copy.”
1
‘Where hae ye been a' the day, my bonny wee croodin doo?’
‘O I hae been at my stepmother's house; make my bed, mammie, now, now, now,
Make my bed, mammie, now!’
2
‘Where did ye get your dinner?’ my, etc.
‘I got it at my stepmother's;’ make, etc.
3
‘What did she gie ye to your dinner?’
‘She gae me a little four-footed fish.’
4
‘Where got she the four-footed fish?’
‘She got it down in yon well strand;’ O make, etc.
5
‘What did she do with the banes o't?’
‘She gae them to the little dog.’
6
‘O what became o the little dog?’
‘O it shot out its feet and died;’ O make, etc.