My transcription from Spotify:


BUNGLE RYE
As recorded by Paul Curran and Allan Cowell on “Shanghaied” (2005)

It’s about a young sailor who’s out on the street,
Who once met a girl on a famed London street.
She carried a basket as she passed him by,
Said: “Jack, how do you fancy some quare bungle rye?”

CHORUS: Roddy-toddy right-fall-the-diddle-addle and toddle-die-day.

“Bungle* rye?” said the sailor. “Now what might that be?”
“It’s a new kind of liquor from far Germany,
Wrapped up in a basket and sold on the sly,
And the nickname they give it is the quare bungle rye.”

Jack gave her a guinea and thought nothin’ strange.
“Hold the basket,” said the damsel, “till I fetch your change.
And treat all your comrades as they pass you by
To a drop of strong whiskey called the quare bungle rye.”

Jack waited an hour and then thought it strange,
For the damsel, she never came back with his change.
He looked in the basket; the kid let a cry.
“Well, damn me!” says Jack. “This is quare bungle rye.”

Now to get the kid christened was Jack’s good intent.
For to get the kid christened to a clergy he went.
Says the clergy: “What name will the baby go by?”
“Well, damn me!” says Jack. “Call him Quare Bungle Rye.”

“Bungle* rye?” says the clergy. “Now, that’s a strange name.”
“It is then,” said Jack, “and a strange way he came.
Instead of strong whiskey as I chanced to buy,
Wrapped up in the basket was the quare bungle rye.”

So beware of the damsels you meet on the street.
Beware of the damsels, although they look sweet.
Look into the basket before that you buy,
In case they might slip ye a quare bungle rye.

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* This word is probably wrong. I think it might be an Irish expression that I am unfamiliar with.

I don’t like the construction of verse 1 line 4: “Said: ‘Jack, how do you…?’”. It could be construed as “Said Jack: ‘How do you…?’” which is confusing.