K. James Ist. and the tinker/Paul and Nanny

PAUL and NANNY.

YOU batchelors that are willing to marry,
I'd have you be careful for fear you miscarry,
I'd have you be wise and mind who you marry,
Lest you should be hamper'd like Paul and Nanny,
Sing rue, rue, rue, rue and be marry'd,
Sing fal driddle, lal driddle, lal driddle laddy,
I'd have you take warning by Paul Nanny.

Paul he had nothing, but Nanny had money,
He call'd her his love, his joy, and his honey,
The day was appointed, they were to be joined,
In the happy state of matrimony.
Sing rue, rue, &c.

Full ten months after the marriage was over,
Nanny her temper began to discover,
She rung such a peal on the side of his noddle,
Which made his head ake, and his brains grow addle.
Sing rue, rue, &c.

O you must get up, and make me a fire,
Or any thing else that I do desire,
You must wash the dishes, and rock the cradle,
Or else at your head goes the skimmer and laddle.
Sing rue, rue, &c.

O Nanny your words are very provoking,
I thought all the while you was but a joking,
Although that your amorous charms bewitches,
Yet for all that, you shan't wear the breeches.
Sing rue, rue, &c.

Go fetch me some water, and don't stand murm'ring
I wish that your breeches and you were a burning,
Come make up a fire, and put on the kettle,
For I'll have some tea, if you go to the devil.
Sing rue, rue, &c.

But poor Paul said nothing for fear he'd offended,
For if he had spoken, his life she'd have ended,
She up with the laddie, and broke his noddle,
Which made him remember to rock the craddle.
Sing rue, rue, &c.

Paul was a man that follow'd hard labour,
Nanny she gossip'd about with her neighbour,
She was the express for to fetch and to carry,
And those that want news may learn it of Nanny.
Sing rue, rue, &c.

Now Paul he is gone, and left Nanny his money,
Although he call'd her his love and his honey,
He would not have left her while he had a boddle,
If she had not broke his head with a ladle.
Sing me, rue, &c.

You batchelors all that are cuddling and wooing,
I'd have you be careful now of your chusing,
And you young maids that want to be marry'd,
I’d have you rake warning by Paul and Nanny,
Sing rue, rue, &c.