A TENEMENT TO LET
(Words by Thomas D'Urfey, Circa 1720 As sung by Ed McCurdy on When Dalliance was in Flower In Wit & Mirth, or Pills to Purge Melancholy, Volume VI, pp. 355-356.)
I Have a Tenement to Let,
I hope will please you all,
And if you'd know the Name of it,
'Tis called Cunny Hall.
It's seated in a Pleasant Vale,
Beneath a rising Hill;
This Tenement is to be Let,
To whosoe'er I will.
For Years, for Months, for Weeks or Days,
I'll let this famous Bow'r;
Nay rather than a Tennant want,
I'd let it for an Hour.
There's round about a pleasant Grove,
To shade it from the Sun;
And underneath is Well water
That pleasantly does run.
Where if you're hot you may be cool'd,
If cold you may find heat;
It is a well contrived Spring,
Not little nor too great.
The place is very Dark by Night,
And so it is by Day;
But when you once are enter'd in,
You cannot lose your way.
And when you're in, go boldly on,
As far as e'er you can;
And if you reach to the House top,
You'll be where ne'er was Man.
Landlady's Daughter, not to be confused with Charley Noble