That "Cowboy Song" is one of those 'Any port in a storm/ Necessity is the mother of invention' pieces. A cowboy version of "The Crossed Couple", noted above, is in Logsden's 'The Whorehouse Bells are Ringing'

[From Pills to Purge Melancholy. Earlier broadside version (ZN1361) 1686-8, is rather different and longer but shares some verses. ZN1361, in the web broadside ballad index, is to the tune of "The Country Farmer" (King James's Jig, B262 of the broadside ballad tunes), or "The Devonshire Damsels" (same tune, diff. title, but not the tune below.) I've forgotten on which night Scherazade told this as a tale.]

To curb rising Thoughts

There was an Old Woman that had but One Son,
And he had neither Land nor Fee;
But got little Gains,
Yet fain a Landlod he would be,
With a fadariddle la, fa la da riddle la, fa la la fa la la re.

And as he was a going Home,
He met his Old Mother upon the Highway;
O Mother, quoth he,
Your Blessing grant me,
Thus the Son to the Mother did say,
With a fa, &c.

I ha' begg'd Butter-milk all this long Day,
But I hope I shan't be a Beggar long;
For I've more Wit come into this Pate,
Then e'er I had when I was Young.
With fa, &c.

This Butter-milk I will it sell,
A Penny for it I shall have you shall see;
With that Penny I will buy me some Eggs,
I shall have Seven for my Penny.
With a fa, &c.

And those seven Eggs I'll set under a Hen,
Perhaps Seven Cocks they may chancc for to be
And when those Seven Cocks are Seven Capons,
There will be Seven Half-Crowns for me.
With a fa, &c.

But as he was going Home,
Accounting up all of his Riches all;
His foot it stumbled against a Stone,
Down came Butter-milk Pitcher and all.
With a fa, &c.

chorus His Pitcher was broke, and his Eggs were dispatch'd.
This 'tis to count Chicken before they are Hatch'd.
With a fa da, &c.

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