Harding B 14 (92), dated to 1839: PADDY WILL YOU NOW. Once I was a roving blade, And often with girls went a cruizing, My landlady was kind to me, But my landlord he was always a busing, [sic] Tow, row, row, Paddy will you now Take me while I'm in the humour that's just now. My landlord he went out one day, And left me at his house a calling, The girls they all come tumbling in, Like bees that's in summer swarming, Now there was one amongst the rest, Her name was Eliza Kenwick, I put my arm around her waist, And placed my hand on her band of music, As I was going up the stairs, I saw this fair maid's door [l]ie open, Says I my love, tis just my trade, To stop all doors that I find open, Then quickly I laid her on the bed, And gently put my right leg over, The deuce of a word this fair maid said, But wriggled herself till the job was over. To my surprise I heard a noise, Who should it be but her cross old mother, She caught me by her daughter's side, And arrah blood an ound you've kilt my daughter. Quick I leaped off the bed, And seized the old girl by the hind quarter Then rammed her up against the bed And served her as I served the daughter. As I was going down the stairs, The cross old fool come tumbling after, And at every step she took she cries, Their [sic] goes the man that kiss'd my daughter. As I was passing through the door, Who should I meet but the sly old father, With a brace of pistols in his hands, To shoot the man who'd kiss'd his daughter. To put an end to this gay sport, I soused his head in a pail of water, And rammed his pistols down his throat And left him to cure his wife and daughter.
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