The Croodin Doo- Lockhart 1870 Child M
[Robert Chambers' Popular Rhymes of Scotland, 1870, p. 51. Below is the music and source notes for 'The Croodin Doo,' found in Robert Chambers' Popular Rhymes of Scotland, 1870, p. 51. Sophia Scott Lockhart 1799- 1837,
Walter Scott 1771-1832]
CROODIN' DOO- Child 12; Lord Randal; Version M
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.
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Notes and Music from Robert Chambers' Popular Rhymes of Scotland, 1870, p. 51.
[This beautiful little ballad, of which the above is Mrs Lockhart's copy, as she used to sing it to her father at Abbotsford, is the same as a ballad called Grandmother Addercook, which is popular in Germany. There is a similar ballad of great beauty —Lord Randal—in the Border Minstrelsy, where, however, the victim is a handsome young huntsman.]
CROODIN' DOO
