Lyr Add: Tha Baboon

Subject: Tha Baboon
From: Conrad Bladey (Peasant- Inactive)
Date: 02 May 00 - 12:55 PM

The Baboon

Sum time since, sum wild beasts thre cam to the toon,
And in the collection a famous Baboon,
In uniform drest-if my story you're willin
To believe, he gat lowse, and ran te the High Fellin

Fal de rol la, &c.

Three Pitmen cam up- they were smoking their pipe,
When straight in afore them Jake lowp'd ower the dike:
Ho, Jemmy! smash, marrow! here's a red-coated Jew,
For his fyece is a' hairy, and he hez on nae shoe!

Wey, man, thou's a fuil! for ye divent tell true,
If thou says 'at that fellow was ever a Jew;
Aw'll lay thou a quairt, as sure's my nyem's Jack,
That queer luikin chep's just a Russian Cossack.

He's ne Volunteer, aw ken biv his wauk;
And if he's outlandish, we'll ken biv his tauk;
He's a lang sword ahint him, ye'll see'd when he turns;
Ony luik at his fyece! smash his byens, how he gurns!

Tom flang doon his pipe, and set up a greet yell;
He's owther a spy, or Bonnypairty's awnsell;
Iv a crack the High Fellin was in full hue and cry,
To catch Bonnypairt, or the hairy French spy.

The wives scamper'd off  for fear he should bite,
The men-folks and dogs ran to grip him se tight;
If we catch him, said they, he's hev ne lodging here,
Ne, not e'en a drop o' reed Robin's sma' beer.

-Armstrong, In: The Newcastle Song Book or Tyne-Side Songster., W&T Fordyce