The Book of Scottish Song/Symon Brodie

Symon Brodie.

[This old ditty, to its own tune, appeared in Herd's collection, 1776.]

Symon Brodie had a cow:
The cow was lost, and he couldna find her:
When he had done what man could do,
The cow cam' hame, and her tail behind her.
Honest auld Simon Brodie,
Stupid auld doitit bodie!
I'll awa' to the north countrie,
And see my ain dear Symon Brodie.

Symon Brodie had a wife,
And, wow! but she was braw and bonnie.
She took the dish-clout aff the bulk,
And preen'd it to her cockernonie.
Honest auld Symon Brodie, &c.

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