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Thread #80082   Message #3549134
Posted By: Jim Carroll
14-Aug-13 - 07:20 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: The Light Dragoon - a bit missing?
Subject: Lyr Add: FIRELOCK STILE (from Harry Cox)
Hi Malcolm
As far as I know this is Harry's complete text
Best
Jim Carroll

Firelock Stile.

O come all young men, come listen awhile,
I'll tell you what happened at Firelock Stile.
When a stump of a nail catched hold of her clothes,
She fell down, and she did expose
Her old rump-a-tump tooral looral laddie-dy,
Rump a-tump tooral looral day!

A gay young buck was standing by —
The sight of her quim that dazzled his eye.
She said, "Young man, I feel amazed
To see a young gentleman stand and gaze
On my rump-a-tump tooral looral laddie-dy,
Rump a-tump tooral looral day!

She said, "Young man, if you mean what you say,
Twenty bright guineas in gold were to pay,
Twenty bright guineas in gold for to pay,
And then, young man, you may fiddle away
On my rump-a-tump tooral looral laddie-dy,
Rump a-tump tooral looral day!

That very soon he gave consent,
And into the woods together they went.
While he preformed and shepre tuned,
The boy and the beauty kept time to the tune
On her rump-a-tump tooral looral laddie-dy,
Rump a-tump tooral looral day!

Now six weeks being over, as I have been told,
She gave him some fire to keep him from cold,
To keep him from cold by night and by day,
And he cursed the young damsel that learned him to play
On her rump-a-tump tooral looral laddie-dy,
Rump a-tump tooral looral day!

Now, all young men, come listen awhile,
I've told you what happened at Firelock Stile,
Or else like me you'll rue this day
You went to the woods for to learn to play
On her rump-a-tump tooral looral laddie-dy,
Rump a-tump tooral looral day!