Cock Up Your Beaver

Burns Night is here again so it must be time for some proper poetry. Duncanr at Madhatters has a brilliant version of A Man's A Man For A' That so go listen.

If you are celebrating tonight save me some tatties and neeps please, raise a glass for Auld Lang Syne and remember to cock up your beaver!





When first my brave Johnie lad came to this town,
He had a blue bonnet that wanted the crown;
But now he has gotten a hat and a feather,
Hey, brave Johnie lad, cock up your beaver!

Cock up your beaver, and cock it fu' sprush,
We'll over the border, and gie them a brush;
There's somebody there we'll teach better behaviour,
Hey, brave Johnie lad, cock up your beaver!

Robert Burns
Johnie Lad, Cock Up Your Beaver (1791)