The song Robin Laing wrote about Deacon Brodie, is on his 1994 "Walking in Time" CD (Greentrax Recordings, CDTRAX 072). The song is published by Grian Music, but Robin's notes and the lyrics in the accompanying booklet run (using his puntuation in the lyrics):

. . . my short song about Deacon Brodie. Brodie was another colourful character from Edinburgh's past. A man who led a strange double existence and was the inspiration for R.L. Stevenson's Dr Jeckyll & Mr Hyde story.

Brodie ye were contradicit
ootside hale but inside wicked
buskit braw and dandy
ribald rough and randy
and though you loved your Anne
your Jean was always handy

CHORUS the hood and the wig
danced a jig
and the Auld Toon Guard was toady
they catched a moose
in the Excise Hoose
and they hingit Deacon Brodie
Brodie, Bill Brodie
somebody should have told ye
or were ye just perverse?
loupin' fences after dark
ye'll whiles get snaggit by yer sark
and land upon yer erse

Brodie ye were fit an' feckless
fickle, fey, careless, reckless
everybody kens whit happens
sae rogues that don't gie tuppence
so how could you complain
when you got your comeuppance

Shoh slaynt,

Bobby Bob