An 11-year-old thread I've only just come across. Hope not too late to point out that in the version in Roy Palmer's "Songs Collected By Ralph Vaughan Williams" (Dent 1983), this song appears in a Somerset version under title "Bizzoms". The word 'gink' does not appear: in verse 2, she eased the squire of his 'jingle O'; in verse 3, Jack Sprat the miller of his 'chink' ~~ both clearly meaning money, & both usages of which 'gink' could be a 'minced' variant. I adopted these versions of the word [I think perhaps in reverse order] for this song on my Butter&Cheese&All record. I sing it thus also on my YouTube channel

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♥♫❤Michael❤♫♥