---
title: "The Cooper o’ Cuddy"
author: "Robert Burns"
form: "Song"
year: "1795"
tune: "Bab at the bowster"
location: "Dumfries"
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/the-cooper-o-cuddy/"
---

# The Cooper o’ Cuddy

## Song
*Chorus*  
We’ll hide the Cooper behint the door,  
Behint the door, behint the door,  
We’ll hide the Cooper behint the door,  
And cover him under a mawn, O.

The Cooper o’ Cuddy came here awa,  
He ca’d the girrs out o’er us a’;  
An’ our gudewife has gotten a ca’,  
That’s anger’d the silly gudeman O.

*Chorus*  
We’ll hide the Cooper behint the door,  
Behint the door, behint the door,  
We’ll hide the Cooper behint the door,  
And cover him under a mawn, O.

He sought them out, he sought them in,  
Wi’ deil hae her! an’, deil hae him!  
But the body he was sae doited and blin’,  
He wist na where he was gaun O.

*Chorus*  
We’ll hide the Cooper behint the door,  
Behint the door, behint the door,  
We’ll hide the Cooper behint the door,  
And cover him under a mawn, O.

They cooper’d at e’en, they cooper’d at morn,  
Till our gudeman has gotten the scorn;  
On ilka brow she’s planted a horn,  
And swears that there they sall stan’ O.

*Chorus*  
We’ll hide the Cooper behint the door,  
Behint the door, behint the door,  
We’ll hide the Cooper behint the door,  
And cover him under a mawn, O.

---

Source: [Project Gutenberg #1279 — Poems and Songs of Robert Burns](https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1279/pg1279.txt)  
Canonical HTML: https://robert-burns.com/poems/the-cooper-o-cuddy/