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Thread #73372   Message #2724260
Posted By: Jim Dixon
15-Sep-09 - 01:55 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Java Jive (and other coffee & tea songs)
Subject: Lyr Add: COFFEE AND TEA (from Bodleian)
From the Bodleian Ballad collection, Harding B 25(392):

[There seems to be some sexual subtext here, but there's a lot I don't understand. --JD]


COFFEE AND TEA

1. My love she drinks Coffee and Tea,
But hey for good liquor and sack;
And every health that goes round,
Here's a health to my own Paddy Whack.

CHORUS: Mally, come plank my plank.
Mally, come plank perri-wig.
Mally, come cover my song.
Good humour you'll find in my merry-gig.

2. I have three ships on the sea.
There is three of them bound to Limerick,
Three laden with Coffee and Tea,
And two with my three-square Gimlick.

3. There are thirty fair maidens in York
And thirty fair maidens in Limerick.
That makes out the even three score.
I bo——d them all with my Gimlick.

4. I have a house of my own.
I have a hole in the rigging o't.
I have a well on the floor.
You may water your nag in the middle o't.