I found sheet music here (click).

-Joe-

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

There's a good old Scottish custom that has stood the test of time.
It's a custom that's been carried out in every land and clime.
Where brother Scots foregather, it's aye the usual thing.
For just before they say, "Good Nicht," they fill their cups and sing...

    CHORUS
    Just a wee Deoch-an'-Doris, a wee drap, that's a'.
    A wee Deoch-an'-Doris before we gang awa'.
    There's a wee wifie waiting in a wee but an' ben.
    If ye can say, "It's a braw, bricht, moonlicht nicht,"
    Yer a' richt, ye ken.

I like a man that is a man, a man that's straight and fair.
A sort of man, that will and can in all things do his share.
I like a man, a jolly man, the sort of man, "Ye know,"
The chap that slaps your back and says, "Mon, Jock," before ye go...

    CHORUS

I'll invite ye a' some other nicht, to come and bring your wives.
And I'll guarantee ye'll have the grandest nicht in all yer lives,
I'll have the bagpipes skirling, We'll make the rafters ring.
And when yer tired and sleepy, why I'll wake yer up an' sing:

    CHORUS


Written and Composed by Gerald Grafton and Harry Lauder. Copyright 1911 by T.B. Harms and Francis, Day & Hunter, New York (is there an earlier UK publication date?)

From the sheet music: "A free translation of Deoch-and-Doris is a convivial Night-Cap, the last drink before departing."

Transcribed from the sheet music.

    Meaning of unusual words:
    aye=always
    but and ben=a two-roomed cottage (click)
    ken=know


filename[ DOCHDORS

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MIDI available on request, or you can follow the link to the sheet music.

There's a nice definition here:

A Butt and Ben is a two roomed cottage, the Butt end is the kitchen and the Ben is the sleeping area.

It's more commonly a holiday cottage rather than a permanently occupied house, the term is on the decline as most butt and bens have been demolished now in favour of better housing.