A SINGLE YOUNG MAN LODGER

(ANONYMOUS)

TUNE:- "Lunnun is the Devil"

  I was by trade a snob,
  And for myself turn'd master -
  So quick I did each job,
  Few could earn money faster.
  I had soom room to let,
  So my wife (a funny codger)
  Said, "Love, we'd better get,
  A single young man lodger!"
                  Tooral, &c.
  
  A bill did soon appear,
  Which some afforded fun for,
  "A gentleman may here
  Be taken in and done for!"
  An applicant had we,
  A chap whose name was Roger,
  Who forthwith said he'd be
  "Our single young man lodger!"
                  Tooral, &c.
  
  I thought, of course, he'd pay,
  For he wore decent raiment,
  But two months pass'd away,
  And still there was no payment!
  He came there but to dwell,
  But damme! if the codger,
  Didn't always board as well -
  This single young man lodger!
                  Tooral, &c.
  
  At dinner, supper, tea,
  The time exact he heeded;
  For in our room he'd be,
  "To do" - he said - "as we did!"
  And when with us he'd dine,
  Though but a thin spare codger,
  He'd eat enough for nine -
  This single young man lodger!"
                  Tooral, &c.
  
  From me my cash, egad!
  My spousy us'd to steal him;
  And when his boots were bad,
  She made me "sole and heel em!"
  If I asked for a bob,
  He'd give me such a podger -
  And say, "get out you snob,
  "Nor dare insult your lodger!"
                  Tooral, &c.
  
  From my wedding-day five years.
  My toil had been incessant;
  We were without those "dears",
  That makes one's marriage pleasant,
  When all at once she had
  Two puking little codgers -
  One eye was mine egad!
  But t'other was the lodgers!
                  Tooral, &c.
  
  That cause for jealousy
  I found from this here chap's tone,
  The child was as like me
  As a paste horn's like a lapstone!
  One morn ere break of day,
  I lost this artful dodger -
  For she had run away 
  With this here single lodger!
                  Tooral, &c.
  
  My furnish'd room he stript,
  Which gave me quite the ricketts -
  He'd pledged my goods, and left
  From gratitude - the tickets!
  So, each snob who'd be wise,
  And his wife in safety lodge her,
  Oh, never advertise
  For a single young man lodger!
                  Tooral, &c.