Aladdin's cave, the fishie's van,
Lions hug the seerip tin,
Jars, wi pearly clouds o' bubble
Pickelt ingins, soor as sin.

The fishie's fuskered like a walrus,
Hauns as steeny-cauld's a hake,
Een like fog-lichts, hair o' dulse
An elver's tongue, a lug fur claik

A face as lang's a weet wikken,
That anely brichtens, gin ye spen
The price o' fillet, fry, or eggs,
Shrimps like birrsled divils' legs

Gawpin mous, an ringel een,
Scales o' herrin, saxpence roon
Labsters, reid, wi nesty nippers
Sun-tanned kippers, Asia broon
Netted, gutted, battered, dried
A sitter shoal wirth ilkie poon,
Heidless, so's ye'd niver ken,
Fit wrathfu' fishies think o' men.