Please see Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger for a more thorough biography and … Read Full Bio ↴Please see Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger for a more thorough biography and some playable samples of their work. See also Ewan MacColl, Peggy Seeger and Ewan MacColl, Charles Parker & Peggy Seeger, as well as Peggy Seeger's solo page and Ewan MacColl's solo page.
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Traditional Songs and Ballads
Ewan MacColl Lyrics
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Steven Christian Amendola
on There's Cauld Kale in Aberdeen
There's cauld kail in Aberdeen,
And custocks in Stra'bogie,
Where ilka lad maun ha'e his lass,
But I maun ha'e my cogie.
For I maun ha'e my cogie, Sirs,
I canna want my cogie;
I wadna gi'e my three-gir'd cog
For a' the wives in Bogie.
Johnny Smith has got a wife
Wha scrimps him o' his cogie:
But were she mine, upon my life,
I'd dook her in a bogie.
For I maun ha'e my cogie, sirs,
I canna want my cogie;
I wadna gi'e my three-gir'd cog
For a' the wives in Bogie.
These are the lyrics of these two verses on WikiSource. I'm not entirely fluent in Scots so I'm not sure if Ewan Maccoll's delivery of the last line in either verse is here consistent with this text, especially as Maccoll also says "Then fie, gi'e me my cogie" rather than "But I maun ha'e my cogie." I can't quite hear what he actually says in the last line.