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Thread #15505 Message #1478554
Posted By: Joe Offer
05-May-05 - 02:24 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Another 'Jolly Tinker'? / Merry Wedding
Subject: ADD: The Merry Wedding
Say, Amos, after all this time, I found your song - at John Mehlberg's Website. Apparently, it's from Volume III of Ed McCurdy's recording, When Dalliance Was In Flower and Maidens Lost Their Heads. It didn't make it onto the "Dalliance" CD compilation that came out in 2003. Not that our man is a "grocer" in this one. -Joe Offer-
The Merry Wedding
A jolly young grocer of London town Fell deeply in love with a maid; But often he courted her to lie down But she told him that she was afraid.
He tried to enthuse her But still she refused To consent to his wicked will; She said, "You must tarry, Until we do marry, And then you shall have your fill."
And so it did seem that he could not obtain The blessings that he pursued, For though he had tried again and again She vowed that she would not be lewd.
At last he submitted And thus he permitted The parson to enter the door; He knew not his bride Had been tested and tried By one that she loved before.
And after the marriage had been declared The drums and the fiddles arrived; And oh what a thumping and bumping was there To please his lovely bride.
There was fiddle, come fiddle, With a hey, diddle, diddle, And while the music played There was kissing and loving And heaving and shoving To capture the heart of the maid.
But ere three months had passed away A thumping baby was born. "Confound you!" he was heard to say, With bitterness and scorn.
"You're a strumpet," cries he; "You're a cockold," cries she; And finding himself betrayed, There was hitting and fighting And spitting and biting. His jewel had proved a jade.