Familiar Songs - Their Authors & Histories

300 traditional songs, inc sheet music with full piano accompaniment & lyrics.

	69	OUR FAMILIAR SONG IS.
	44 My Crumniie is a usefu' cow, And has come of a good kin'; Aft has she wet the bairns' mou\ And I am laith that she should tyne. Get up, guidman, it is fu' time, The sun shines in the lift sae hie; Sloth never made a gracious end, Gae tak' your auld cloak about ye." " My cloak was ance a guid grey cloak, When it was fitting for my wear; But now it's scantly worth a groat, For I hae worn't this thretty year. Let's spend the gear that we hae won, We little ken the day we'll dee; Then I'll be proud, for I hae sworn To hae a new cloak about me." " In days when guid King Robert ran, His trews they cost but half-a-crown ; He said they were a groat owre dear, And ca'd the tailor thief an' loon. He was the King that wore the crown, And thou'rt a man o' low degree ; 'Tis pride puts a' the country doun, Sae tak' your auld cloak about ye."		" Ilka land has its ain laucli. [law] Ilk kind o' corn has its ain hool; I think the warld is a' gane wrang, When ilka wife her man wad rule. Do ye no see Rob, Jock, and Hab, How they are girded gallantlie, While I sit hurklin in the asse ? I'll hae a new cloak about me." " Guidman, I wat it's thretty year, Sin' we did ane anither ken; And we hae had atween us twa, O' lads and bonnie lasses ten. Now they are women grown and men, I wish and pray weel may they be; And if ye prove a guid husband, E'n tak' your auld cloak about ye." " Bell, my wife, she lo'es nae strife, But she wad guide me, if she can; And to maintain an easy life I aft maun yield, tho' I'm guidman. Nought's to be gain'd at women's han' Unless ye gie them a' the plea; Then I'll leave aff where I began, And tak' my auld cloak about me."
	DO THEY MISS ME AT HOME? For the music of this pleasant little song we are indebted to Mr. S. M. Grannis.