Lyr. Add: Three Sailors
Match-making game, London, coll. A. B. Gomme.

Here come three sailors, three by three,
To court your daughter, a fair lady [ladee)
Can we have a lodging here, here, here?
Can we have a lodging here?

Sleep, sleep, daughter, do not wake,
Here are three sailors we can't take;
You cannot have a lodging here, here, here,
You cannot have a lodging here.

Here come three soldiers, three by three,
To court your daughter, a fair lady;
Can we have a lodging here, here, here?
Can we have a lodging here?

Sleep, sleep, daughter, do not wake,
Here are three soldiers we can't take; etc.

Here come three kings three by three,
To court your daughter, a fair lady;
Can we have a lodging here, here, here?
Can we have a lodging here?

Wake, wake, daughter, do not sleep,
Here come three kings that we can take;
You can have a lodging here, here, here,
You can have a lodging here.

Here's my daughter, safe and sound,
And in her pocket one hundred pound,
On her finger no gay gold ring,
I'm sure she's not fit to walk with a king.

With musical score. Tune for last two verses differs from the preceeding.
Tinkers, sweeps, blacksmiths, tailors, bakers, etc., may be substituted. Gomme suggests that it is a later game than "Three Dukes" or "Three Knights.
In a peculiar form, the three kings become three robbers.

Alice B. Gomme, The Traditional Games of England, Scotland, and Ireland, vol. 2.