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Thread #30253   Message #3878739
Posted By: Joe Offer
26-Sep-17 - 03:18 AM
Thread Name: ADD: Lincolnshire Wedding Song/Get a Little Table
Subject: ADD Version: Lancashire Wedding Song
Anybody have lyrics for this song from early sources?

My friends (Dick) Holdstock and (Allan) MacLeod recorded this as "Lancashire Wedding Song":(may not play in UK)

Here are the lyrics from their CD booklet:

LANCASHIRE WEDDING SONG

Some people think it's jolly to lead a single life
But I believe in marriage and the comforts of a wife
A wife’s the greatest blessing, if she’s honest, brave, and true
So if you want to marry lads I’ll tell you what to do

CHORUS
Get a little table and a little chair
Then a tiny house in a tiny square
Get a little wife and a little tin
And don’t forget the cradle, for to rock the baby in.

Now a single man in lodgings can’t have much delight
For there’s no one to speak to him when he sits alone at night
Nothing to attract him and to pass the time away
For to quickly find the difference if he listens to what I say

Now a married man has comforts that a single man has not
For his clothes are always mended and his meals are always hot
At first they may have quarrels, just the odd one now and then
But it’s hardly worthwhile falling out, for they make it up again

Now it’s little use in asking a girl to marry you
Unless you have a little house and a room to take her to
For a good wife likes to see a house cozy, clean, and nice
So if you want to marry, lads, just take my advice

http://www.dickholdstock.com/lyrics/WinterInTheWoodLyrics.pdf