From Stevens's Historical Collections, Part 1 by Henry Stevens (Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 1881), page 13:

90 BURNS (ROBERT, Poet) TWO MANUSCRIPT SONGS, written on a single quarto sheet and neatly bound in limp red morocco, entirely in the well-known autograph of the Poet.

For the sake of collation and identification these Songs are here given entire.

[A]

BROOM BESOMS.

1. I maun hae a wife, whatsoe'er she be;
An she be a woman, that's eneugh for me.

Chorus: Buy broom besoms! wha will buy them now;
Fine heather ringers, better never grew.

2. If that she [be] bony, I shall think her right
If that she be ugly, where's the odds at night?

3. O, an she be young, how happy shall I be!
If that she be auld, the sooner she will die.

4. If that she be fruitfu', O! what joy is there!
If she should be barren, less will be my care.

5. If she like a drappie, she & I'll agree;
If she dinna like it, there's the mair for me.

6. Be she green, or gray; be she black or fair;
Let her be a woman, I shall seek nae mair.

[B]

1. Young and souple was I, when I lap the dyke;
Now I'm auld and frail, I downa step a syke.

Chorus: Buy broom besoms! wha will buy them now;
Fine heather ringers, better never grew.

2. Young & souple was I, when at Lauthers lack;
Now I'm auld & frail, & lie at Nansie's back.

3. Had she gien me butter, when she gae me bread,
I wad looked baulder, wi' my beld head.