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She says, you are a workman brisk,
your musick it well pleaseth me ;
My lovely Scot come do your work,
five guineas it shall be your fee.
At Coventry these girls so free,
to this young Rover was most kind,
A lovely creature drest in silks,
paid him two guineas for each time.
At Greenwich we a while did stay,
these girls dearly love the game;
With liquors good they chear’d my blood,
so merr’ly as I pass’d my time.
At Portsmouth where we went abroad,
the sailor’s wives were very free,
For when their husbands went to sea,
they came and spent their gold with me.
With the girls of France sometimes I danc’d,
who treate’d me well with brandy wine,
I did their work, they paid me for’t;
their gold did make my pockets shine.
The Yankie girls are very fly,
they’ll hardly speak while sun does shine,
But in the dark, and out of sight,
most lovingly they’ll round you twine.
But now at last the peace comes on,
I am discharged, and sent home;
Provision’s dear, and money’s scarce,
I fear my roving's at an end.
