Here you are. The Crafty Maid 19th Cent. Broadside Come all you lads and lasses, and listen here awhile I'll sing to you a merry song I think will make you smile 'Tis of a farmer's daughter the truth I will declare She was riding to the market to sell her country ware. She'd butter and good cheese, sir, beside some new laid eggs Two conies in her basket and one between her legs To market she was tripping with a coney near each thigh It lay so warm she thought no harm, two lords came riding by. Now these lords being wanton blades they liked this damsel well One of them riding up to her said what have you to sell? I have butter and good cheese, sir, besides some new laid eggs He said my dear what shall I give for that between your legs She smiled unto herself to think what she had there She said kind sir, you will not buy the price it is too dear For the colour of it's brown and the price is fifty pounds He said my dear, the money's here, let's ride to yonder town She said to sell my other wares, to market I must go He said, my dear never mind, I'll buy that ware also And as for those two conies upon them we will dine And you shall be merry with drinking ale and wine. The bargain it was bound and he paid the money down Her coney be it wild or tame, she pulled up her cloak and gown. Between her thighs so white, he thought to have delight But she pulled out a rabbit which did them all afright. The gentlemen did shout and laugh until the house did ring And the young lord did curse and swore he'd have his cash again. But witnesses declared he bought the bargain fair So to the justice he did go to try the matter there. How came you by this coney? the justice he did say. Between your legs, the meaning now let me know I pray. 'Twas a present for a friend, and lest it should take harm I put it between my legs that I might keep it warm. The bargain it was fair these young men witness be The justice said the bargain's fair as ever I did see But the young lord did say sir the thing cannot be right For I did mean the other thing, to lay with her all night What mean you by the other thing? the justice he did say. You fairly bought her coney and that you can't deny The lass has played a cunning part, commended ought to be So you may take your coney home and have it for your tea.
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