Three new songs/Take care of your Money

From Wikisource
Jump to navigation Jump to search
Three New Songs (1800)
Take care of your Money

Dated from period of activity of publisher and external evidence.

3177889Three New Songs — Take care of your Money1800

Take Care of your Money.

FROM great Londonderry to London so merry.
My own natty self in a waggon did ride;
In London so frisky, folks ride in a whisky,
At Connaught they carry their whisky inside,
I jump’d from the waggon and sew a green dragon,
I spied a blue boar when I turn’d to the south,
At the Swan and two Trottles, I tippled two bottles,
And bothere’d the beef at the Bull and the Mouth.
Ah! Paddy, my honey, take care of your money,
It's all botheration from bottom to top;
Sing didderoo daisy, my jewel, be aisy
This London, agrah! is the devil’s own shop.

The great city wax work, was all a mere ax-work,
A plan to bamboozle me out of my pelf,
Says I, Mrs Salmon, cut up your gammon,
You figures, are no more alive than yourself.
I ax'd an old quaker the way to long Acre;
With thee and with thou, ha so bother’d my brain
After fifty long sallies thro’ lanes and blind allies.
I found my myself in Rosemary lane.
Ah! Paddy, my honey, &c.

At, night, how silly! along Picadilly,
I wander’d when up comes a beautiful dame;
‘Huzza!’ says the lady, ‘how do you do Paddy?’
Says I, pretty well, ma’am, I hope you’re the same,
A great hulking fellow who held her umbrella,
Then gave me t terrible thump on the nob:
She ran awa squaling, I, watch! watch! was bawling:-
The devil a watch was there left in my fob.
Ah! Paddy, my honey, &c.


FIINIS.

This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.

Public domainPublic domainfalsefalse