There are three texts and one tune in the Greig-Duncan Folk Song Collection:

I've Got a Shilling
(#572A - Singer Robert Alexander, September, 1906)

I've got a shilling, a jolly, jolly shilling,
And I love that shilling as I love my life;
A penny I will spend, another I will lend,
And tenpence I'll take home to my wife.

No pot nor pint shall grieve me,
Nor no false girl shall deceive me,
But happy is the girl that shall keep me,
As I go rolling home.
Rolling home, rolling home, rolling home,
As I go rolling home.

I've got a tenpence, a jolly jolly tenpence
And I love that tenpence as I love my life
A penny I will spend, and another I will lend
And eightpence I'll take home to my wife.

I've got an eightpence, a jolly jolly eightpence
And I love that eightpence as I love my life
A penny I will spend, and another I will lend
And sixpence I'll take home to my wife.

I've got a sixpence, a jolly jolly sixpence
And I love that sixpence as I love my life
A penny I will spend, and another I will lend
And fourpence I'll take home to my wife.

I've got a fourpence, a jolly jolly fourpence
And I love that fourpence as I love my life
A penny I will spend, and another I will lend
And twopence I'll take home to my wife.

I've got a twopence, a jolly jolly twopence,
And I love that twopence as I love my life
A penny I will spend, and another I will lend
And myself I'll take home to my wife.

Interesting tune - is this the tune that's common in the UK?

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