Collected from an Elliot Family album and I could not find it in the digitrad, so here it is
If anyone has any idea what it means - do post!
ALso if anyone can produce a better word for "vac-van" please do so.
HOB-I-DERRY-DANDO
I'll sing bass and you sing solo
Hob-I-derry-dando
It's all about the Marco Polo
Let us sing again and boys
See her rolling through the water
Jane, sweet Jane
I wish I was in bed with the captain's daughter
Jane, Jane, come to the glen
To sing a praise to Johnny-vac-van.
CH: Jane, Jane, come to the glen
To sing a praise to Johnny-vac-van
Sally Brown she's a bright mulatto
Hob-I-derry-dando
She drinks rum and she chews tobacco
Let us sing again and boys
Sally Brown what is the matter?
Jane, sweet Jane
She's a lovely girl but I can't get at her
Jane, Jane, come to the glen
To sing a praise to Johnny-vac-van
CH
You Jack Hughes and the miller gripping
Hob-I-derry-dando
Caught a shark in the reach of Nevin
Let us sing again and boys
All thye wanted was a pie-dish
Jane, sweet Jane
For to wash their bit of sharkfish
Jane, Jane, come to the glen
To sing a praise to Johnny-vac-van
CH
They brew good brown beer in Nevin
Hob-I-derry-dando
It's both food and drink in Nevin
Let us sing again and boys
When I quench my thirsty yearning
Jane, sweet Jane
Like a card we'll all keep turning
Jane, Jane, come to the glen
To sing a praise to Johnny-vac-van
CH
Also see: Hob y Deri Dando