Thanks, John. I'm more comfortable with the spelling on your post - I take it you got the lyrics from this Website.
There's a YouTube video here (click) - I think that's Lauder singing...
The video begins with a photo of the sheet music. It gives the title of the song as A WEE DEOCH-AN-DORIS, written by Gerald Grafton and Harry Lauder, composed and performed by Harry Lauder.
I wonder what's the source of the lyrics in the third verse in the DT version. It's not in the Harry Lauder recordings I found, but you will find it at ingeb.org and in the Mudcat Forum in a song about Robert Burns.

-Joe-

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Listening to a couple of Harry Lauder recordings, there are a few words I hear differently. Here's my proposed text for the corrected version I'd like to submit to the Digital Tradition. I put questioned text in bold. I'll change this test as people suggest changes. Anybody have a publication date? Anybody have access to sheet music?

A WEE DEOCH-AN-DORIS
(Harry Lauder and Gerald Grafton)

    There's a good old Scottish custom that has stood the test o'time,
    It's a custom that's been carried out in every land and clime.
    Where brother Scots are gathered (foregather??), it's aye the usual thing,
    Just before we say good night, we fill our cups and sing...

    CHORUS
    Just a wee deoch an doris, just a wee drop, that's all.
    Just a wee deoch an doris before we gang awa.
    There's a wee wifie waitin' in a wee but an ben.
    If you can say, "It's a braw bricht moonlicht nicht",
    Well yer a'richt, ye ken.

    Now I like a man that is a man; a man that's straight and fair.
    The sort of man that will and can, in all things do his share.
    Och, I like a man a jolly man, the sort of man, you know,
    The chap who slaps your back and says, ""(Man, just?) (Man, Jock), before ye go..."

    CHORUS

    Meaning of unusual words:
    deoch an doris=Gaelic for a drink at the door, a farewell drink
    aye=always
    but and ben=a two-roomed cottage
    ken=know