The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #69349   Message #1175110
Posted By: Betsy
30-Apr-04 - 12:46 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: A Smuggler's Song (Rudyard Kipling)
Subject: four and twenty horses - HELP
Can't remember the words - the last line of the chorus goes something like " as the gentlemen ride by".

4 & 20 horses riding though dark
( Something ) .........................
( Something )letters???...... for a lady
( Something )baccy ???...... for a clerk
Watch them all my darling as the gentlemen ride by .
Maddening thing is I know the tune OK - can anyone help me.???