PRETTY PEG

When Pretty Peg went down the street
Some fresh fish for to buy
The wedding class followed after her
And they kissed her by and by

With my diddy right falt diddy dye do
My diddy right falt da diddle ay

With my tiddy right faladiddle daddy
With my tiddy right faladiddle day
Oh how can I get to your chamber, love
Oh how can I get to your bed
When your daddy goes to sleep at night
With a key lying under his head

Oh go and get a ladder, love
With thirty steps and three
And put it to the chimney top
And come down in the creel to me

I went and got a ladder love
With thirty steps and three
And a creel on the top of that
I'll come down in the lum to thee

No peace nor ease could the old wife get
With dreams running through her head
I'll lay on me life said the gay old wife
There's a boy in me daughter's bed

Then up the stairs the old man crept
And into her room did steal
Silence reigned where the daughter slept
And he never spied the creel

My curse attend you Father
What brought you up so soon
To put me through my evening prayers
And I just lying down

He went back to his gay old wife
Oh he went back to she
She has the prayer book in her hand
And she's praying for you and me

No peace nor ease could the old wife get
Till she would rise and see
But she came on a stumbling-block
And into the creel went she

Hi I rocked her, low I rocked her
Didn't I rock her well
For if any old dame begrudge me her daughter
I'll rock her into hell