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