"The Jovial Companion" (London: Evans, n.d. [ca1800]), pp. 6-7. The long esses ("f") suggest that this is the oldest version:


                      DADALUM DOO

AS I was walking thro’ Chelsea Park,
    There I met with a lovely lafs;
She fqueez’d my hand, and fingers too,
    And bid me play with her dadalum doo.
                            Dadalum doo.

When fhe came to her father’s hall,
      Down on her bended knees did fall;
O! pardon me daddy and mammy, do,
      For the young man has fpoilt my dadalum doo.

The old man then, in a rage he cry’d,
      Dear daughter, I fear you are with child,
You’ve fpoilt your fortune and marriage too,
      I wish you had ne’er had a dadalum doo.

A dadalum doo, what do you call that!
    It’s something resembling your granny’s cat;
It’s rough, and hairy, and fkinny too,
    Which gives it the name of the dadalum doo.

Come all young men, both far and near,
    I’d have you all be of good cheer;
And when you find we buckle too,
   Be sure you catch by our dadalum doo.      [sic]