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title: "Gudewife, Count the Lawin"
author: "Robert Burns"
form: "Poem"
year: "1790"
location: "Ellisland"
source: "Project Gutenberg #1279 — Poems and Songs of Robert Burns"
source_url: "https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1279/pg1279.txt"
canonical_url: "https://robert-burns.com/poems/gudewife-count-the-lawin/"
---

# Gudewife, Count the Lawin

## Poem
Gane is the day, and mirk’s the night,  
But we’ll ne’er stray for faut o’ light;  
Gude ale and bratdy’s stars and moon,  
And blue-red wine’s the risin’ sun.

*Chorus*  
Then gudewife, count the lawin,  
The lawin, the lawin,  
Then gudewife, count the lawin,  
And bring a coggie mair.

There’s wealth and ease for gentlemen,  
And simple folk maun fecht and fen’;  
But here we’re a’ in ae accord,  
For ilka man that’s drunk’s a lord.

*Chorus*  
Then gudewife, count the lawin,  
The lawin, the lawin,  
Then gudewife, count the lawin,  
And bring a coggie mair.

My coggie is a haly pool  
That heals the wounds o’ care and dool;  
And Pleasure is a wanton trout,  
An ye drink it a’, ye’ll find him out.

*Chorus*  
Then gudewife, count the lawin,  
The lawin, the lawin,  
Then gudewife, count the lawin,  
And bring a coggie mair.

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Source: [Project Gutenberg #1279 — Poems and Songs of Robert Burns](https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1279/pg1279.txt)  
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