My Wife's a Wanton Wee Thing

Melody - from Mitchell's Highland Fair, 1731

from the Merry Muses of Caledonia, 1799

Chorus:
|: My wife's a wanton wee thing, :|
My wife's a wanton wee thing,
She winna be guided by me.

|: She play'd the loon or she was maried, :|
She play'd the loon or she was maried,
She'll do it again or she die.
Chorus:

2. |: She sell'd her coat and she drank it, :|
She row'd hersel in a blanket,
She winna be guided for me.
Chorus:

3. |: She mindit na when I forbad her, :|
I took a rung and I claw'd her,
An' a braw good bairn was she.
Chorus:

See Robert Burns' My Wife is a Winsome Wee Thing for a similar song.