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Steve Gardham Lyr Req: A Kiss in the Morning Early (13) RE: Lyr Req: A Kiss in the Morning Early 28 Apr 17


I have a copy of a garland version from about 1770. Unfortunately it is not online. I got it from the 18th Century Catalogue but the stamp on the garland appears to belong to the Bodleian. Of course the Bodleian garlands and chapbooks are not yet online just the broadsides. The version titled 'A Kiss in a Morning Early' is in 'The Parent Bird's Garland, Composed of Several new Songs Viz'. There are 5 titles of which ours is 4th. Although there is no imprint telling us who printed it or where or when, the second song is 'Wilkes and Liberty for Ever' and it describes the exploits of famed radical John Wilkes dating from 1763 to 1770. The style of the type, print, illustrations would suggest about 1770.

A New SONG, call'd A Kiss in a Morning Early.

Shoemaker, Shoemaker are you within
All alone, all alone, all alone lee
Have you got any shoes to fit a maid trim
With a kiss in a morning early

Step in step in fair maid and see
All...
I have got shoes that will fit thee
With...

He laid this fair maid all on the bench
It's hey for a lad or a country wench

He laid this fair maid all on the block
First he did whistle and then he did knock

When 20 weeks were come and past
This maid she begun to look round in the waist

When 40 weeks were come and gone
Deliver'd she was of a lovely son

O mother, O mother, throw it out
It is but a Shoemaker's wiping clout

O daughter O daughter I'll do no such thing
It is a prince born and it may be a king.


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