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Our gudewife's sae modest, When she is set at meat, A laverock's leg, or tittling's wing, Is mair than she can eat; But, when she's in her bed at e'en, Between me and the wa'; She is a glutton devil, She swallows cocks an a'.
This is a song by Robert Burns. It is read here by Stuart McQuarrie.
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