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Then I took my love by the lily white hand,
saying. Madam, can you dance?
And there came by an old fidler,
that play'd us a tune by chance;
There's the Black-smith, and the Whitesmith,
and the Gun-smith, I can tell,
So merrily round the hogg's tub,
we danc'd exceeding well.The, &c.
Some says kissing is a great sin,
but I do not say so;
For kissing did the world begin,
some thousand years ago;
For Adam kiss'd old Eve his wife,
and she by him bore a son,
So kissing did the world begin,
and I hope it ne'er will be done. The &c.
O if kissing was not lawful,
Lawyers would not use it,
And if it was not gospel.
the Parson would refuse it:
And if it was not a dainty dish,
the Ladies would not crave it,
And if it was hot sweet like wine,
bonny Lasses ne'er would have it.
CHORUS.
The hogg's tub, the pickling tub,
and the tub behind the door;
She tumbl'd me into the hogg's tub,
and I’ll ne'er go there any more.
