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title: "The Deuks Dang O’er My Daddie"
author: "Robert Burns"
form: "Poem"
year: "1792"
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-deuks-dang-oer-my-daddie/"
---

# The Deuks Dang O’er My Daddie

## Poem
The bairns gat out wi’ an unco shout,  
The deuks dang o’er my daddie, O!  
The fien-ma-care, quo’ the feirrie auld wife,  
He was but a paidlin’ body, O!  
He paidles out, and he paidles in,  
rn’ he paidles late and early, O!  
This seven lang years I hae lien by his side,  
An’ he is but a fusionless carlie, O.

O haud your tongue, my feirrie auld wife,  
O haud your tongue, now Nansie, O:  
I’ve seen the day, and sae hae ye,  
Ye wad na ben sae donsie, O.  
I’ve seen the day ye butter’d my brose,  
And cuddl’d me late and early, O;  
But downa-do’s come o’er me now,  
And oh, I find it sairly, O!

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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-deuks-dang-oer-my-daddie/