MarcB - Here's what I think the Bandoggs version is:

Mick

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LADIES DON'T GO THIEVING
(Trad Arr Jones)

  Chorus:
    Oh, don't we live all in curious times,
    You scare could be believing,
    When Frenchmen fight, aye, and emperors die,
    And ladies go a-thieving.
  
  A beauty from the West-end went
  Around the shops she lingers.
  And thereupon some handkerchief
  She lights her pretty fingers.
  
  For thieving is a wicked trait,
  As I to you will state now.
  If a poor man stole a penny loaf
  They'd send him off to Newgate.
  
  He'd get six months, aye, in Newgate Gaol -
  In roguery was dealing.
  But here's a lady all in a veil
  Who rambles out a-thieving.
  
  The draper hid beneath her veil
  Said "What d'you mean by this then?"
  And very soon she was in the hands
  Of one of them new policemen.
  
  Her husband, when he had heard the news,
  Began to shout and to curse her.
  He swore he'd take his whip to her
  And make her fingers blister.
  
  For thieving is a wicked trait,
  As I to you will state now.
  If a poor man stole a penny loaf
  They'd send him off to Newgate.