 "Wee Cooper O'Fife" is a Scottish folk song about a cooper who has "a braw new wife" who will not cook, clean, and sew in case she "spoil her comely hue".Verses get added, with one version having him put a sheep skin jacket on her and beating it.It was recorded by Burl Ives on 11 February 1941 for his debut album "Okeh Presents the Wayfaring Stranger".