Matilda Higgins was a girl I used to admire
Every time she looked at me, she set my heart on fire

She wouldn't go to the --- or into the sitters hall
She wouldn't go to the balcony for fear that she might fall
She wouldn't look at the stage at all, to me she seemed so glum
Just wanted to sit in the front of the pit
With the fellow who played the drums

He had a beer with me
he said he had a handsome wife, and possessed of children three

That is all I can remember!