--from Tony Pastor's Complete Budget of Comic Songs by Tony Pastor, John F. Poole (New York: Dick & Fitzgerald, 1864).

MY NAME IS DICK DARLING.
Air—"The Tail ov me Coat"
As sung by TONY PASTOR.

MY name is Dick Darling, the cobbler.
My time I served down there in Kent.
They say I'm an old, funny creature,
But now I'm resolved to repent

CHORUS: With my twank fol de rol de rol liddie,
My whack fol de rol de rol lay!

For twenty years I'd been a rover,
And wasted the prime of my life.
One day I resolved to give over,
And settle myself down to a wife.

My wife was the divil for swearing.
She was both humpy and black,
The divil, all over, for swearing,
And her tongue kept going click-clack!

I resolved to get rid of this creature:
One morning, before it was light,
I shoved the old hag in the river,
And cautiously bade her good-night!

Now, my troubles of wedlock being over,
This country I thought I would try;
And once more I became a free rover,
And single I'll stop till I die.